Kalaat el Hosn (Castle of the Knights, Syria)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1859
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- image: 22.5 x 29 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Louis De Clercq
Artist
Printmaking
Louis De Clercq was a French photographer and orientalist active in the mid-nineteenth century. Working primarily with albumen prints, he documented architectural and archaeological sites across the Mediterranean and Near East during a period when photography was establishing itself as a tool for both artistic and scholarly inquiry.
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Record
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- Louis De Clercq
- Year
- 1859
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- image: 22.5 x 29 cm (8 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1859-285627
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified