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Pyramid of Cheops, Giza

1853-1854

John Beasley Greene

Artist, American, active France, 1832 - 1856

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Artwork overview

Medium

salted paper print
Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg
Dimensions

image: 21.8 × 30 cm (8 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
mount: 46.7 × 60.2 cm (18 3/8 × 23 11/16 in.)
Accession

2018.40.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Joachim Bonnemaison, Paris); (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1997; NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Isaacs, Charles

Exhibition History

2019

Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Wikidata ID

Q64155911

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