Assouan. Ruines de l'Ancienne Enceinte Arabe, au sud-est de la ville

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Assouan. Ruines de l'Ancienne Enceinte Arabe, au sud-est de la ville

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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
9cbb7b39-658a-4dcb-9210-78231a99cc1e

View looking out across a desert landscape. The ruins of a wall partially buried in sand extends from the side of a low hill. Two buildings are visible beyond the wall in the distance.

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