- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- P1985.30.47
- People
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Félix Bonfils, French (Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort (Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France) 1831 - 1885 Alès (Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France))
- Title
- Entrance to the Grand Pyramid
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Entrée de la grande pyramide
Series/Book Title: What I Saw in Egypt - Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- album page, photograph
- Date
- c. 1880
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Culture
- French
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Albumen silver print affixed to album page.
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- image: 21.9 x 28 cm (8 5/8 x 11 in.)
mount: 26 x 31 cm (10 1/4 x 12 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: Ink inscription on white paper " We wait for (?) to mount the big pyramid - I was one, the only one of my party of five."
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- P1985.30.47
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Related Works
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