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Greene, John Beasley
(1832-1856)Thèbes, Temple de Gournah

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Thèbes, Temple de Gournah. 1854. Salted paper print from a waxed paper negative, mounted to board. 23,5 x 29,5 cm (mount 39,8 x 57 cm). Signed in the negative at lower right; titled in ink on the mount at lower left.

During his 1853-54 journey along the Nile, Greene made one of the earliest sustained photographic surveys of Egyptian antiquities. Working from waxed paper negatives, he produced views in which the open foreground and broad expanse of sky give the ruin an exceptional formal clarity. This view depicts the columned remains of the Temple of Gournah on the west bank of Thebes.