Fallen Statue at the Ramesseum, Thebes
1857
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 38.3 × 48.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190436
Overcoming both physical dangers and technical difficulties, Francis Frith traveled to obscure regions of the world to capture exotic images for an eager Victorian audience. Taken on the second of three trips to Egypt, this photograph was created with a mammoth plate (typically an 18-x-22-inch glass negative), which enabled the artist to capture the smallest details of a scene. Here Frith conveyed the monumentality of the ancient Egyptian sculpture by including members of his expedition in the picture. The image was published in an album containing 20 mammoth-plate views, the only published v…
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1992.236
Registry history
- 1857 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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