Kalaat el Hosn (Castle of the Knights, Syria), 1859

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 20.5 x 27.6 cm (8 1/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
mount: 45.3 x 59 cm (17 13/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Diana and Mallory Walker Fund

Accession Number

2007.92.2

Artists / Makers

Louis De Clercq (artist) French, 1836 - 1901

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center, etched within platemark border: KALAAT-EL-HOSN. / (PREMIÈRE ENCEINTE) / Parois intérieures, (nord.); embossed ink stamp lower center at platemark; lower left corner, in graphite: 26; lower right corner, in graphite: 26; lower right corner, in graphite: MD

Provenance

(sale, Galerie de Chartres, 25 January 2003); (Galerie Daniel Blau), Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie Daniel Blau

Exhibition History

2009: In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.