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[The Northwestern area of the Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem]
Creator
Joseph-Philibert Girault de PrangeyFrench Daguerreotypist · 1804–1892
All works by this person →Until recently, pioneering daguerreotypist Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was unknown in the world of fine-art photography. His extraordinary images were discovered in a storeroom of his estate in the 1920s and only made known some eighty years later. Girault de Prangey studied painting at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and learned daguerreotypy in 1841, the same year inventor Louis-Jacque
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- about 1842
- Medium
- Daguerreotype
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 05321b73-1fba-4a03-9fe8-2e30eba39f3d
The subject of the photograph is a panorama of a central section of the city of Jerusalem with the Ghawanimah minaret of the Madrasa al-Jawliyya on the horizon.
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