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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1999.97.31
People
Henry Carrington Bolton, American (1843-1903)
Title
Nakb el-Hawi, looking Northwest
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Photographic Memoranda of a Journey in the Peninsula of Mt. Sinai (Volume I)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
album page, photograph
Date
March 1889-April 1889
Places
Creation Place: Africa, Egypt, Northern Egypt
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/186555

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
image: 11.6 x 17.6 cm (4 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
album: 26 x 22 x 3.5 cm (10 1/4 x 8 11/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
mount: 21.7 x 25 cm (8 9/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: album page, upper center, graphite, in artist's hand: "In the third month .... the same day the children
    of Israel came into the wilderness of Sinai."
    Ex 19.1
  • inscription: album page, lower center, black ink, in artist's hand: Nakb el-Hawi, looking NW.
  • inscription: album page, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: 5000 ft.
  • inscription: album page, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: 218

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dorothy A. Heath, Boston, Massachusetts, unknown, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dorothy A. Heath in honor of Deborah M. Kao
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
P1999.97.31
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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