Uxmal: Egyptian facade of the Nun's Palace
Album TitleCités et ruines américaines
Artist
Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay
(French, 1828 - 1915)
Date1860; printed ca. 1862
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 1/2 × 15 5/8 inches (26.67 × 39.69 cm)
Mount: 21 3/16 × 27 15/16 inches (53.82 × 70.96 cm)
Mount: 21 3/16 × 27 15/16 inches (53.82 × 70.96 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.29
SignedOn label attached to mount recto, lower left, in black type: “Charnay, photogr. [area blacked out with marker] Gide, éditeur, Paris. / PALAIS DES NONNES, A UXMAL / FAÇADE DITE ÉGYPTIENNE”
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right, in pencil: “10”;
On mount verso, lower left, in pencil: “Y1160.61”
On View
Not on viewCollections
Provenance
Purchased at Photographs 9487, Sotheby's, April 3, 2016, no. 22 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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