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[Gateway of Akbar's Tomb, Secundra]
Creator
Felice BeatoPhotographer · 1832–1909
All works by this person →Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1858
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1ddc83ff-a469-4a59-831e-c4500ed2ba59
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Three-quarter view of an elaborately decorated building in ruins. Visible are three minaret-like towers, two of which lack their top galleries. Also visible in the foreground are three men dressed in traditional garments.
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