Notre Dame d Afrique and Carmelite convent Algiers Algeria – Vintage Wall Art
![Notre Dame d Afrique and Carmelite convent Algiers Algeria, [ca. 1899]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b872d66e99aa-L.webp)
(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 Notre Dame d Afrique and Carmelite convent Algiers Algeria, a historic print rich in period 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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Notre Dame d Afrique and Carmelite convent Algiers Algeria
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Notre Dame d'Afrique crowns a hill above Algiers, and this view places the basilica beside a Carmelite convent with the city and sea spread out below. The basilica was built in the decades after the French conquest of Algeria and became a major site of Marian devotion for the colony's Catholics and for pilgrims arriving by sea. This is a photochrom, a process that printed color from several lithographic stones, each inked by hand after a black-and-white photograph was made. The Detroit Photographic Company sold such views as travel souvenirs around 1899, and the saturated colors reflect the period's appetite for scenes of distant places.
| Created / published | [ca. 1899]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Subjects | Detroit Photographic Co. catalogue F--scenic architectural and marine views,c1899. Print no. 8497. Views of people and sites in Algeria |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,361 × 2,488 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2904_Notre_Dame_d_Afrique_an_1899.tif-05532u |
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