Porte de Damas (Jérusalem) – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Porte de Damas (Jérusalem), preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Porte de Damas (Jérusalem)
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The Damascus Gate, the most elaborate of Jerusalem's surviving city gates, is the subject here, shown as a single albumen print from Auguste Salzmann's 1856 survey of the city's monuments. Salzmann, a French photographer, traveled to Jerusalem in the early 1850s and produced large-format images of the Holy City's walls, gates and sacred sites, which Gidé and J. Baudry issued in Paris as a published series. The gate, built by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1530s, stands on the north wall and was the main entrance for travelers coming from Damascus and the north. Salzmann's print is valued as one of the early photographic records of the city, made when such views were still rare and before the rapid changes of later decades.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Albumen prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Jérusalem; étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte, depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours / Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856, v. 3, no. 4. |
| Subjects | Damascus Gate (Jerusalem)--1850-1860. Gates--Jerusalem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,632 × 3,752 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222256 |
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