[Colossus from the Temple of Rameses at Abu Simbel]

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[Colossus from the Temple of Rameses at Abu Simbel]

Creator

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
about 1856
Medium
Photolithograph
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
9803001d-d80f-4da9-8c80-ab347301d34e

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