Medinet-Habu
Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1989
Catalogue
- Year
- 1854
- Dimensions
- 23.4 x 30.1 cm (9 3/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- John Beasley Greene
Artist
John Beasley Greene was a French-born American Egyptologist and one of the earliest archaeological documentary photographers. He died at the age of 24. Because of his early demise, his pioneering work was quickly forgotten. The first important study of Greene was published in 1981.
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- John Beasley Greene
- Year
- 1854
- Dimensions
- 23.4 x 30.1 cm (9 3/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1854-336485
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- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
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