Getty Museum
Assouan. Ruines de l'Ancienne Enceinte Arabe, au sud-est de la ville
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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- negative 1851–1852; print 1853
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 9cbb7b39-658a-4dcb-9210-78231a99cc1e
What the image shows
A desert landscape with ancient ruins on a hillside.
Generated by LinkedCulture from the photograph alone, without the museum’s catalogue text (Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct), and not yet reviewed by a person. It describes the picture, not the object’s history, and it is not part of the museum’s record.
From the Getty Museum record
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.
The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Places this record points to
- Aswan — Aswan Governorate, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “Assouan”
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.