COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0018606
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Work Title (display):
Albert Smith's Mont Blanc and China at the Egyptian Hall
Image Title:
view of box displayed with prints
Work Description:
A miniature theater, or peepshow model, in the form of the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London. Consisting of a wooden set of boxes fitted with a lens into which 1 of 16 views can be inserted. The views are hand-colored, lithographic prints depicting Albert Smith's journey to Egypt and China and are captioned: The Deck of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamer; Shepheard's Hotel at Cairo; A Street in Cairo; The Sphynx and the Pyramids; The Dessert Railway; City and Harbour of Victoria, Hong Kong; A Waterside Bazaar, Hong Kong; The Brogue Forts on the Canton River; The European Factories at Canton; Preraphaelite Pictorial Panoramas. I; Preraphaelite Pictorial Panoramas. II; Howquar's Gardens near Canton; The Shipping Canton River; Chinese Shops; and A Chinese Waiting Room. (Getty Research Institute Special Collections)
Work Dates (display):
ca. 1859
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Albert Smith (English, 1816-1880)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Getty Research Institute
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Los Angeles, California
Work Location (Geographic) role:
repositoryLocation
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Cody, Jeffrey W., and Frances Terpak, editors. Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
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Cody, Jeffrey W., and Frances Terpak, editors. Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
978-1-60606-054-4
Image Source Reproduction page number:
131
Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
11
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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