A group of tall palm trees in a desert landscape, with sparse vegetation and distant hills under a clear sky. The text at the top reads "ÉGYPTE" and at the bottom "KARNAK".

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Karnak. Groupe de Dattiers vu du Point A

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Félix Teynard

French Photographer · 1817–1892

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In 1851, while a civil engineer in Grenoble, France, a center of Egyptological research, Félix Teynard embarked on a journey to photograph architectural structures in Egypt. Presumably self-taught in photography, Teynard traveled more than a thousand miles up the Nile River, "isolated in a region of unmitigated poverty . . . amidst the peoples of Egypt and Nubia," carrying his cumbersome, heavy eq

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Date
negative 1851–1852; print 1853
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
09690ba7-0406-4fe3-a474-3e4ff154da35

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A group of palm trees growing in a desert landscape. Small tufts of grass are growing across the sandy ground.

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  • Karnak Temple — Luxor, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “Karnak”
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