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[Seconde Cataracte]
Creator
John Beasley GreeneAmerican Photographer · 1832–1856
All works by this person →A French-born archaeologist based in Paris and a student of photographer Gustave Le Gray, John Beasly Greene became a founding member of the Société Française de Photographie and belonged to two societies devoted to Eastern studies. Greene became the first practicing archaeologist to use photography, although he was careful to keep separate files for his documentary images and his more artistic la
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1853–1854
- Medium
- Salted paper print from a waxed paper negative
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 876d65a3-6782-4528-a2dc-cf94677aa6dc
What the image shows
A river flows through a rocky landscape with a large cliff on the left.
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From the Getty Museum record
Egypt landscape
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Places this record points to
- Second Cataract of the Nile — near Wadi Halfa, SudanMatched from the record’s own words: “Seconde Cataracte”
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