P1999.97.38: Arab cemetery, Wadi ed-Dêr

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1999.97.38

People

Henry Carrington Bolton, American (1843-1903)

Title

Arab cemetery, Wadi ed-Dêr

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/186559

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 11.7 x 17 cm (4 5/8 x 6 11/16 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: And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt
  has thou taken us away to die in the wilderness?"
  Ex. XIV. 11-
• inscription: album page, lower center, black ink, in artist's hand: Arab Cemetery, Wadi ed-Dêr.
• inscription: album page, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: 272

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

P1999.97.38

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Related Works

• P1999.97

  Henry Carrington Bolton

  Photographic Memoranda of a Journey in the Peninsula of Mt. Sinai (Volume I)

  Photographs

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