[Main Gate of Imam Riza, Mashhad, Iran]
1850s
![[Main Gate of Imam Riza, Mashhad, Iran] by Luigi Pesce](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/main-gate-of-imam-riza-mashhad-iran-302221.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 16.8 x 21.1 cm (6 5/8 x 8 5/16 in.) Sheet: 17.2 x 21.1 cm (6 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977
Accession Number
1977.683.32
Tags
About the Artist
Luigi Pesce · 1818–1891
**Luigi Pesce (1828–1864)** was an Italian colonel and pioneering amateur photographer from Naples in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, whose work captured some of the earliest images of Iran's ancient monuments and 19th-century life. Arriving in Persia in 1848 during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Pesce was tasked with training Iranian infantry units, a mission that positioned him ideally t...