Title(s)

Gezicht op de Grote moskee van Damascus
Damascus: The great Mosque (title on object)

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-38-2

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘And Abram said "The steward of my house is the eliezer of Damascus."Gen. XV.2.’

Artist

• Francis Frith (possibly)

Place

Damascus

Dating

c. 1850 - c. 1865

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 101 mm × width 154 mm

What

• temple, shrine ~ Islam, Mohammedanism

Where

• Grote moskee van Damascus

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)