sliderarrowCloseMenushare_facebookshare_instagramshare_xshare_linkedinshare_threadsshare_shareshare_tranditionalshare_calendarshare_emailicon_threadsconnect_facebookconnect_instagramconnect_xconnect_youtubeconnect_atbtn_arrowhamburger-x
Skip to main content
Collections Menu
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Sculptured Doorway, Baalbec
Datec. 1855–1870
PlaceBaalbek, Lebanon
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:6 1/16 × 8 1/4 in. (15.4 × 21 cm)
Mount: 12 1/16 × 15 1/8 in. (30.6 × 38.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Margaret C. and Louis Skidmore, Jr. in honor of Isabell Smith Herzstein
Object number88.173
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceWestside National Bank, Houston; purchased by MFAH, 1988.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
printed below image "SCULPTURED DOORWAY, BAALBEC."
see entry under Description
printed bottom right below image "612"

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Unknown
c. late 18th - early 19th century
Leather, porcupine quills, glass beads, silk, and sinew
2025.767.A,.B
Francis Frith
1862
Book of albumen prints, stereographs
84.349
Nutley Abbey
Francis Frith
c. 1855–1870
Albumen silver print from glass negative
87.427
Wutala, Ancestral Crown
Unknown Indonesian
17th–18th century
Gold
2004.2308
The Erechtheum, Athens
Francis Frith & Co.
c. 1855–1870
Albumen silver print from glass negative
88.166
Cup Depicting the Decapitator Deity
Unknown Central and South American
400–1100 AD
Gold
2004.2536
Bracelet
Unknown Indonesian
Late 19th–early 20th Century
Gold alloy, bronze alloy, rubies, diamonds, and garnets
2004.2262
Bowl
Unknown Central and South American
900–200 BC
Stone
2004.2532
The Wilderness of Encedi—The Convent of Mar Saba
Francis Frith & Co.
c. 1855–1870
Albumen silver print from glass negative
88.167
Wutala, Ancestral Crown
Unknown Indonesian
15th–17th century
Gold
2004.2311
Shakhrisyabz Suzani
Unknown
c. 1800
Cotton; embroidered with silk thread
2016.83
Pin (Tupu) with Bird and Snake
Unknown Central and South American
1100–1450 AD
Silver
87.268
Francis Frith & Co.