El-Kab (Éléthya). Architecture Hypogéenne - Tombeau de Phapé - Sculptures Peintes

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El-Kab (Éléthya). Architecture Hypogéenne - Tombeau de Phapé - Sculptures Peintes

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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
531c0933-18aa-4553-86a2-9e8b5df818dc

Detail of a tomb wall covered in painted sunken relief sculptures. One panel depicts a scene of figures leaning forward in a row, appearing to hold onto a long rope. The bottom panel features a group of boats.

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