Maxime Du Camp
Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis pendant les années 1849, 1850 et 1851

ArtistFrench, 1822–1894
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie: dessins photographiques recueillis pendant les années 1849, 1850 et 1851
  • Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, and Syria: Photographs Gathered during the Years 1849, 1850, and 1851
Date1849–1852
Place depictedEgypt
Place depictedPalestine
Place depictedSyria
MediumBook of salted paper prints from paper negatives
DimensionsImage (Each average): 6 5/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16 × 21.5 cm)
Sheet (Each average): 6 5/16 × 8 7/16 in. (16 × 21.5 cm)
Mount (Each): 17 1/8 × 11 13/16 in. (43.5 × 30 cm)
Overall (Album): 18 1/8 × 13 × 2 3/4 in. (46 × 33 × 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2022.788.1-.125
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Description

As the first major photographic survey of monuments and archeological sites throughout Egypt and the Middle East and the most ambitious photographically illustrated book yet produced, Maxime Du Camp’s Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie delighted European audiences. Traveling down the Nile with his friend the writer Gustave Flaubert, Du Camp made pictures emphasizing descriptive clarity and a romanticized sense of Egypt as a lost civilization and a root of Western culture. The lone human depicted throughout Du Camp’s photographs is his boatman and assistant, Hajj Ishmael, ostensibly posed to provide a sense of scale.


ProvenancePrivate collection, England; ["Travel, Photographs, Maps and Natural History", Sotheby’s London, November 17, 2021, lot 50]; [Photo Vintage France, Arnaville]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed title page: "EGYPTE // NUBIE // PALESTINE ET SYRIE // DESSINS PHTOOGRAPHIQUES // RECUEILLIS // PENDANT LES ANNEES 1849, 1850 ET 1851 // ACCOMPAGNES // D'UN TEXTE EXPLICATIF ET PRECEDES D'UNE INTRODUCTION // PAR // MAXIME DU CAMP // CHARGE D'UNE MISSION ARCHEOLOGIQUE EN ORIENT PAR LE MINISTERE DE L'INSTRUCITON PUBLIQUE // PARIS // GIDE ET J. BAUDRY, EDITEURS // DES CATACOMBES DE ROME --NINIVE -- VOYAGE EN PERSE -- CULTES DE MITRA ET DE VENUS, ETC., ETC. // 5 RUE BONAPARTE, ANCIENNE RUE DES PETITS-AUGUSTINS // 1852"; printed mounts for each photograph indicating subject.

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Syrie. Baalbeck.  Hémicycle de l’enceinte des temples du soleil et de Jupiter
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.120
Syrie. Baalbeck. Intérieur de l’enceinte des temples du soleil et de Jupiter
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.119
Haute Egypte. Bois de Dattiers et de Palmiers Doums
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.23
Haute Egypte. Mosquée d’El-Arif et tombeau de Mourad-Bey
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.13
Nubie. Grand Temple d’Isis, à Philœ. Dromos et Pylones
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.72
Nubie. Temple et village de Débôd
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.85
Nubie. Village et Temple de l’ile de Béghé
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.81
Nubie. Kalabscheh. Isis et Hôrus-Arsiési
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.92
Nubie. Ibsamboul. Les deux spéos
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.101
Le Kaire. Maison et jardin dans le Quartier Frank 
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.3
Le Kaire. Mosquée et tombeau du Sultan Kansou-El-Gouri 
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.7
Le Kaire. Mosquée et tombeau des Ayoubites 
Maxime Du Camp
1849–1852, printed 1852
Salted paper print from paper negative
2022.788.6