Jérusalem, enceinte du temple--Vue générale de la face Est Pl. 3 / Aug. Salzmann. – 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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This rare historic photograph captures Jérusalem, enceinte du temple--Vue générale de la face Est Pl. 3 / Aug. Salzmann. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Jérusalem, enceinte du temple--Vue générale de la face Est Pl. 3 / Aug. Salzmann.
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Salzmann's view of the east face of the Temple enclosure wall is the plate that stands out here: it records the massive dressed stones at the city's eastern edge rather than the domed shrines above them. Auguste Salzmann, a French photographer and architectural historian, made the picture during his Jerusalem campaign in the mid-1850s, when photography was still new and expensive to carry into the field. It appeared as plate 3 in the second volume of his 1856 survey of the city's monuments, published in Paris. The salted paper process, which printed from a paper negative, gives the stone a soft, slightly warm tone. Viewers today often note how the scale of the lowest courses, which date to the Herodian period, dwarfs the figures and structures around them.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Gidé et J. Baudry, éditeurs. Imp. Photogr. de Blanquart-Evrard à Lille. 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. 2, pl. 3. |
| Subjects | City walls--Jerusalem--1850-1860. Jerusalem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,632 × 3,757 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222264 |
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