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Reference (shelfmark):: 7875.c.3(2)
Title:: Vénus de Milo. Dans la caisse où elle avait été placée pour être transportée hors du Louvre; vue de dos. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Rear view of the statue crated up for transportation to a safe location during the Siege of Paris.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 7875.c.3(3)
Title:: Vénus de Milo [three views]. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Montage of three views of the statue, two showing the statue with the blocks between the two halves of the figure removed, the third showing the statue as had been since 1820.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1871
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10028.g.5(13)
Title:: Colossal figures at Singa Sarie, Island of Java. Photographer: Woodbury, Walter Bentley
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view from the front of one of the massive temple guardian figures at Candi Singasari, with a European standing beside it to indicate scale. With accompanying letterpress by Walter Woodbury.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1860-1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10028.g.5(17)
Title:: Canova's Tomb, Church of Santa Maria de' Frari, Venice. Photographer: Naya, Carlo
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Side view of the monument to Canova in the Church of St Mary of the Friars (Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari) in Venice. This is not in fact Canova's tomb, but the monument originally designed by him for Titian. His heart is interred beneath the pyramidal monument...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1865-1875
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(5)
Title:: Gizeh. The Sphinx, the Great Pyramid and two of the smaller pyramids. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking northwards towards the Pyramid of Cheops, with the smaller Pyramids of the Queens to the right, and the Sphinx dominating the left foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(8)
Title:: Edfu. View through the Great Gateway into the Grand Court of the Temple of Edfu. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View looking through the great gateway of the Temple of Horus, towards the Court of Offerings beyond. Relief sculptures of Isis and Horus flank the entrance.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(9)
Title:: Thebes. The Colossi on the Plain of Thebes. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Close view of the Colossi of Memnon on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes.The seated figures both represent portraits of Amenhotep III.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(10)
Title:: Propylon of the Temple of Luksur. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Titled, dated, numbered and signed 'Luxor. Mar 18/62. 45 F. Bedford.' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View from the north looking towards the great gateway of the Temple of Luxor, flanked in the foreground by two of the partially buried colossal sculptures of Ra...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 18 Mar 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10095.g.34(16)
Title:: The fallen colossus of the Memnonium [Ramesseum], Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the massive head and shoulders of the shattered statue of Rameses II, lying in the second court of the Ramesseum ay Thebes, with a portico of Osirid columns in the background. Stereoscopic pair.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1859-1860
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10095.g.34(21)
Title:: Two colossal statues of Memnon — Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Side view from the south of the Colossi of Memnon. Stereoscopic pair.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1859-1860
Extent:: 1 item

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