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Cairo. Great Pyramid of Cheops – Vintage Wall Art

Cairo. Great Pyramid of Cheops, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic print
Cairo. Great Pyramid of Cheops, [between 1860 and 1890]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Cairo. Great Pyramid of Cheops, a historic print rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Cairo. Great Pyramid of Cheops

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Cheops is the Greek form of Khufu, the pharaoh for whom this largest of the Giza pyramids was built around 2560 BCE. The print is numbered 159 in an album of views of Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo and Rome, the kind of travel series made for visitors in the decades after 1860. Egypt drew growing numbers of tourists in that period, and the pyramids were among the first sights they sought out. The albumen process gives these prints their warm, fine-grained tones.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1890]
GenreAlbumen prints 1860-1890.
NotesIn album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 159
SubjectsGreat Pyramid (Egypt)--1860-1890. Pyramids--Egypt--Jīzah--1860-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,268 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181613

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