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Environs d'Ibrîm. Chaine Arabique - Vue d'une Ravin
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
- 617acf12-06e7-4a3f-aeb9-5c1db0735df9
What the image shows
A rocky landscape with rolling hills and sparse vegetation.
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From the Getty Museum record
Small desert mountains stretch into the distance.
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- Qasr Ibrim environs — Nubia, Aswan Governorate, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “Environs d'Ibrîm”
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