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Unknown Artist — Syros, Center of the Levant Trade

Unknown Artist

Syros, Center of the Levant Trade

1865

Part of the 19th-century tradition of travel photography, this albumen print documents the bustling commercial activity of this Greek island port, serving both as artistic composition and ethnographic record.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Unknown Artist, Syros, Center of the Levant Trade, 1865

Part of the 19th-century tradition of travel photography, this albumen print documents the bustling commercial activity of this Greek island port, serving both as artistic composition and ethnographic record.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1865
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Albumen Print, Documentary, Architectural, Unknown Origin, Landscape, Historical, Architecture, Geographic

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago