Kaalat el Athlit, Syria, View from the Seaside
Medium
albumen print from calotype negatives
Dimensions
image: 20.7 × 15.2 cm · matted: 55.9 × 71.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
1996.254
Tags
About this artwork
After fulfilling his obligation to a government-sponsored expedition to the crusader castles of Syria and Asia Minor, Louis de Clercq continued his photographic exploration of the Holy Land, moved on to Egypt, and returned to France through Spain. From the probably several hundred paper negatives he took during his extensive travels, de Clercq published a selection of 222 albumen prints, divided into 6 volumes, which were frequently bound as 5 albums, titled Voyage in Orient (1859–60). This care...