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Asyut, View from the Mountain
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| Artist / Maker | Antonio Beato |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 1870s -1880 |
| Culture / Origin | England, 19th century |
| Medium | albumen print from wet collodion negative |
| Dimensions | Image: 20.1 x 25.9 cm (7 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) |
| Department | Photography |
| Type | Photograph |
About the Artist
Antonio Beato British?, b. Greece, 1834-1903 Antonio Beato, along with his brother Felice (who also became a photographer) and sister Maria Matilde (who later married Scottish photographer James Robertson), was raised in Venice. During their lives, great confusion existed about the two brothers. One often was mistaken for the other, or the two sometimes were thought to be a single person. The confusion persists even today. Antonio worked largely in Egypt (where, French being the dominant language at the time,… Full biography →
Provenance & Source
Image & data: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 / Public Domain.
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