The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Photographs

[Excavations near the Sphinx]

John Beasley Greene

Date

1853

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Dimensions

Image: 22.3 x 30.2 cm (8 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.) Mount: 18 11/16 × 24 5/16 in. (47.5 × 61.8 cm)

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2005.100.276

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005

The Met object ID 286665. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.