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Maxime Du Camp — Temple De Dandour (Ancienne Tantour), Dédié à La Triade Osiris-Isis-Horus; Nubie, plate 93 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Maxime Du Camp

Temple De Dandour (Ancienne Tantour), Dédié à La Triade Osiris-Isis-Horus; Nubie, plate 93 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)

1849

Du Camp's photograph immortalizes the Temple of Dendur in its original Nubian location, decades before the monument's controversial relocation to New York's Metropolitan Museum.

Medium
Salted paper print

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Maxime Du Camp, Temple De Dandour (Ancienne Tantour), Dédié à La Triade Osiris-Isis-Horus; Nubie, plate 93 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852), 1849

Du Camp's photograph immortalizes the Temple of Dendur in its original Nubian location, decades before the monument's controversial relocation to New York's Metropolitan Museum.

Medium
Salted paper print
Year
1849
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Monochrome, French, Archaeological, 1849, Documentary, 19th Century, Egypt, Temple, Landscape, Salted Paper Print

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art