Two Largest Pyramids at Geezech, Taken from the Ancient Causeway.
Photograph
Two Largest Pyramids at Geezech, Taken from the Ancient Causeway.
From Views in Egypt and Nubia.
ca. 1859
Albumen silver print
7.0 x 7.0 cm. (each); on 8.3 x 17.1 cm. mount
Purchase
1989.0026.0001
Inscriptions recto-(in image) "Frith 376"
mount verso-(printed) "376" "Views in Egypt and Nubia." "Two Largest
Pyramids at Geezech [sic], Taken From The Ancient Causeway." "These
Pyramids are believed to be the oldest (as they certainly are among
the mightiest and most enduring) monuments of human art in the world.
The largest was built in the reigh of Shufu (the Cheops of the Greek
writers) and therefore possesses an antiquity of not less than..."
(in pencil) "Donor Mary V.K. Buchanan 3-11-1944"
mount verso-(printed) "376" "Views in Egypt and Nubia." "Two Largest
Pyramids at Geezech [sic], Taken From The Ancient Causeway." "These
Pyramids are believed to be the oldest (as they certainly are among
the mightiest and most enduring) monuments of human art in the world.
The largest was built in the reigh of Shufu (the Cheops of the Greek
writers) and therefore possesses an antiquity of not less than..."
(in pencil) "Donor Mary V.K. Buchanan 3-11-1944"
