2007.219.20: Untitled (Tombs of Zacharias and Josaphat, Valley of Josaphat, Jerusalem)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2007.219.20

People

Gabriel de Rumine, Swiss (Lausanne, Switzerland (?) 1841 - 1871 Bucharest, Hungary)

Title

Untitled (Tombs of Zacharias and Josaphat, Valley of Josaphat, Jerusalem)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1859

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Palestine, Jerusalem

Culture

Swiss

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/323364

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

image: 17.9 x 20.3 cm (7 1/16 x 8 in.)
mount: 30.5 x 47 cm (12 x 18 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, t.l. in graphite: Jerusalem [over] Vallee de Josaphat [over] Tombeau de Zacharias de Josaphat
• inscription: verso, t.r. in graphite: Gabriel de Rumine, 1859 [over] GE95/L1340.6
• blind stamp: recto, center, above image: La Gazette du Nord Paris 19, Boulevard Montmartre
• blind stamp: verso, b.l., rotated 45 degrees to the left: EB [with symbol between]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Janet and Daniel Tassel

Accession Year

2007

Object Number

2007.219.20

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• Re-View: S231 (Islamic rotation: 2) Sacred Sites: Nineteenth Century Photographs of Jerusalem, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 04/09/2009 - 08/02/2009
• Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009

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