Place des Minines à Lyon

Artist Louis-Antoine Froissart (French, 1815 - 1860)

Dateca. 1858

MediumSalt print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 1/4 × 13 7/16 inches (20.96 × 34.13 cm)
Mount: 19 3/8 × 25 3/16 inches (49.21 × 63.98 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jay H. McDonald

Object number2025.93.5

Signednone

InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in black pen: "place des minimes a Lyon avant les travaux de 1860 qui l'on galee"; On mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "place des minimes avant quion ne l[?] galee".

MarkingsOn mount verso, lower left, in black pen: "23007-05"

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DescriptionImage of a large triangular stone structure with a retaining wall that manages two paths. The lower path leads to multistory buildings while the path on the right is a steep cobbled road that leads to a complex of taller structures.

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