Title(s)

Gezicht op een bron in de woestijn bij de Rode zee
The wells of Moses on the red sea (title on object)

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-38-1

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘These wells are believed to mark the place where the passage of the Red Sea was made.’

Artist

• Francis Frith (possibly)

Dating

c. 1850 - c. 1865

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 103 mm × width 155 mm

What

• well

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

• The Holy Bible, containing Old and New Testaments translated out of the original tongues (RP-F-2001-7-38)