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Deuxième Cataracte. Rocher d'Abouçir - Rapides et Ilots Granitiques
Creator
Félix TeynardFrench Photographer · 1817–1892
All works by this person →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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- negative about 1851–1852; print about 1853–1854
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 125ed883-37d3-4381-835c-2f5a53a1a707
What the image shows
A rocky cliff face on the left, with a body of water and scattered rocks below. The text at the top reads "NUBIE" and at the bottom, "Deuxième Cataracte".
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From the Getty Museum record
A cliff sits to the left of a body of water dotted with boulders and small islets.
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Places this record points to
- Second Cataract of the Nile — near Wadi Halfa, SudanMatched from the record’s own words: “Deuxième Cataracte. Rocher d'Aboucir”
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