Title(s)

Gezicht op de Grote Moskee te Algiers
Grande mosquée a Alger (title on object)
Afrique (series title)

Object type

• print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1540-1

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Rittner & Goupil Boulevd Montmartre 15’
• inscription: ‘N.P. Lerebours Place du Pont Neuf 15’
• inscription: ‘Hr. Bossance Quai Voltaire 11’

Artist

• print maker: Callow (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: anonymous
• after photo by: Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (mentioned on object)
• printer: Bougeard (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Rittner & Goupil (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Jean-Hector Bossange (mentioned on object)

Place

after photo by: Algiers
publisher: Paris
publisher: Paris
publisher: Paris

Dating

in or after 1839 - in or before 1841

Material

• paper

Technique

aquatint

Measurements

height 149 mm × width 208 mm

What

• temple, shrine ~ Islam, Mohammedanism
• façade (of house or building)
• city-view in general; 'veduta'

Where

• Algiers

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

• Excursions daguerriennes (RP-F-2001-7-1540)

• Around the world in 87 photographs : Dolph Kessler's Grand Tour, 1908, p. 16, fig. 8