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Assouan by Francis Frith — VisualArtsDB

Assouan

Assouan

1857

Medium: Albumen print, No. 35 from the album "Egypt, Palestine and Nubia" (1862)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 15.8 × 22.5 cm (6 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.); Mount: 31.6 × 43.5 cm (12 1/2 × 17 3/16 in.)
Genre: albumen silver print
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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