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View of Alexandria with Cleopatra’s Needle
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
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- 1853–1854
- Medium
- Waxed paper negative
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- cbb0f90b-e5fd-4457-9586-f73c12b85a76
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Several long low buildings set against desert landscape, the largest building in the center is next to a bright obelisk
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- Cleopatra's Needle (original site), Alexandria — Alexandria, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “View of Alexandria with Cleopatra's Needle”
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