The Golden Gate, Jerusalem

1857

James Robertson

Artist, British, 1813 - 1888

Felice Beato

Artist, British, born Venice, 1832 - 1909

Antonio Beato

Artist, British, born Corfu (?), after 1832 - 1906

James Robertson

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson

  • Dimensions

    image: 29.4 × 24.2 cm (11 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.137.5.5

  • Volume Title

    Views in Jerusalem and Athens

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby's, London, 08 May 1992, lot 19, as Sebastopol and Balaclava, Greece and Jerusalem. An album containing Twenty Four Photographs, 1850s); Michael and Jane Wilson, Wilson Centre for Photography, London, acquired 1992; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, bottom right in ink: Robertson Beato & Co; bottom center in negative: the golden gate; on verso, by unknown hand, lower left in brown ink: [? inscription possibly in Greek]

Wikidata ID

Q64155491

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