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The Sphinx

c. 1853
(American, 1832–1856)
America
salted paper print from waxed paper negative
Image: 23.2 x 29.6 cm (9 1/8 x 11 5/8 in.); Mounted: 39.8 x 56.5 cm (15 11/16 x 22 1/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2009.277
Location: not on view
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The son of a wealthy banker, Greene was an American but born and raised in Paris. At a young age, he became an avid archaeologist focusing on the Middle East. Before embarking on his first trip to Egypt in 1853 at age 19, he learned photography so he could accurately document excavations, discoveries, and inscriptions, but he also used the relatively new medium to produce elegant landscapes such as the view of Thebes nearby. Greene, who was involved in excavations of the Great Sphinx, died in Cairo in 1856, possibly of tuberculosis.
The Sphinx

The Sphinx

c. 1853

John Beasley Greene

(American, 1832–1856)
America

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