id:			157210
accession number:	1993.94
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.94
updated:		2025-02-09 04:57:36.347000

View of Aswan - Along the Nile, c. 1870s - 1880s. Antonio Beato (British, c. 1825–1903). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 20.1 x 24 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie 1993.94

title:				View of Aswan - Along the Nile
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creation date:			c. 1870s - 1880s
creation date earliest:		1870
creation date latest:		1889
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creditline:			Gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie
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culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Antonio Beato (British, c. 1825–1903)  - artist
Antonio Beato British?, b. Greece, 1834-1903 Antonio Beato, along with his brother Felice (who also became a photographer) and sister Maria Matilde (who later married Scottish photographer James Robertson), was raised in Venice. During their lives, great confusion existed about the two brothers. One often was mistaken for the other, or the two sometimes were thought to be a single person. The confusion persists even today. Antonio worked largely in Egypt (where, French being the dominant language at the time, he was also known as Antoine), establishing studios first in Cairo (1862) and later in Luxor (after 1870). In the early 1850s, however, he may have begun his career with Felice and Robertson in Malta. Antonio Beato focused his attention on producing prolific views of Egypt in all formats -- large prints in several sizes, and smaller cartes-de-visite and stereographs. His work often was purchased by European and American travelers seeking mementos of their time in North Africa and the Middle East. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 20.1 x 24 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Assouan"; "47/vue d'assouan/le bord du Nil"; "AB-5302-Z"
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CITATIONS

	“1993 Annual Report.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 161
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 95
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.94/1993.94_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1993.94/1993.94_full.tif