Title(s)

Persoon vult een waterton in Wadi Feiran
Filling water skins in Wady Feirân (Paran) (title on object)

Object type

• photograph

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-38-3

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘"The water was spent in the bottle." .... "And he (Ishmael) dwelt in the Wilderness of Paran." Gen. XXI. 15,21.’

Artist

• Francis Frith (possibly)

Place

Wadi Feiran

Dating

c. 1850 - c. 1865

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 100 mm × width 82 mm

What

• well
• dale, valley
• trees: palm-tree

Where

• Wadi Feiran

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)