P1999.97.33: Nakb el-Hawi, looking north

Identification and Creation

Object Number

P1999.97.33

People

Henry Carrington Bolton, American (1843-1903)

Title

Nakb el-Hawi, looking north

Other Titles

Series/Book Title: Photographic Memoranda of a Journey in the Peninsula of Mt. Sinai (Volume I)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph, album page

Date

March 1889-April 1889

Places

Creation Place: Africa, Egypt, Northern Egypt

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/186858

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 11.5 x 16 cm (4 1/2 x 6 5/16 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 wherefore did ye bring us into third evil place? It is no place
  of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranattes, neither is there any water to drink." Numbers XX, 5.
• inscription: album page, lower center, black ink, in artist's hand: Nakb el-Hawi, looking N.
• inscription: album page, lower center, graphite, in artist's hand: 222

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

P1999.97.33

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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