Title(s)

Gezicht op de Sfinx van Gizeh met piramide
The sphinx and great pyramid (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1475-10

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Africa’
• inscription: ‘Good photo.’

Artist

• Frank Mason Good (possibly)
• Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Company (mentioned on object)

Place

Gizeh

Dating

c. 1870 - in or before 1875

Material

• cardboard

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 158 mm × width 106 mm

What

• sphinx (lion/woman); 'Sfinge' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure
• pyramid (marking grave)

Where

• Sfinx van Gizeh

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Treasure spots of the world : a selection of the chief beauties and wonders of nature and art (RP-F-2001-7-1475)