Image Beato Colossi of Memnon 17JHP05 by Jim Henderson

 
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A collection of copies of photographs of Egyptian sites taken in the 1870's by Victorian photographers Beato, Frith and Sebah and modern versions have been made as well.
Beato Colossi of Memnon 17JHP05 Colossi Memnon Statues Pharaoh Amenhotep Thebes Beato Old Photo Albumen Print situated on the West Bank of River Nile at Luxor photographed by Antonio Beato, a Victorian photographer around 1890 and this copy is taken from his album called The Nile 1872. It is little changed from the modern situation as seen in identical viewpoints in the modern Gallery although there is perhaps a little more vegetation and agricultural development in the background. Keywords: Egypt, Luxor, Thebes, River Nile, West Bank, Colossi, Memnon, seated, statues, Amenhotep, Amenophis, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, Antonio Beato, 1872, albumen, print, Victorian, photographer, earliest
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Collection: Victorian Albumen Prints
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Beato Colossi of Memnon 17JHP05
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Colossi Memnon Statues Pharaoh Amenhotep Thebes Beato Old Photo Albumen

Print situated on the West Bank of River Nile at Luxor photographed by Antonio Beato, a Victorian photographer around 1890 and this copy is taken from his album called The Nile 1872. It is little changed from the modern situation as seen in identical viewpoints in the modern Gallery although there is perhaps a little more vegetation and agricultural development in the background.
Keywords: Egypt, Luxor, Thebes, River Nile, West Bank, Colossi, Memnon, seated, statues, Amenhotep, Amenophis, history, archaeology, ancient, Egyptian, Egyptology, Antonio Beato, 1872, albumen, print, Victorian, photographer, earliest