Views of Algeria. 1859?

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Views of Algeria. 1859?

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Four albumen prints from paper negatives show images from Beaucorps's trip to Algeria in 1859. All of the sites depicted are in northern Algeria. They include: a street view, Algiers; the gate of al Kantra in the fortified city of Constantine; the smalah, or encampment, of Sheik El Arab at the oasis of Biskra; and a view of the Praetorium at Lambessa, the entrance to the Roman military headquarters in Algeria during the second and third centuries, A.D.

4 photographic prints : albumen ; 32 x 25 cm. on sheet 63 x 48 cm., or smaller.

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Beaucorps, Gustave de, 1825-1906

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The comte Gustave de Beaucorps was an amateur photographer and collector of Muslim art. His first photographs were taken in France and Belgium in 1857; in subsequent years he traveled and photographed sites in Spain, Algeria, Italy, Egypt, the Black Sea, and Turkey. From the description of Views of Algeria. 1859? (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80737310 ...