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Title: Restoration of the Great Sphinx from the Louvre
Creator: Delamotte, Philip Henry, 1821-1889
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Photographic views of the progress of the crystal palace, Sydenham, taken during the progress of the works ... / by Philip Henry Delamotte. Plate no. 39, vol. 1.
Shows artisans at work on sculpture. "No. 39. Head of Sphynx. July 1853" -- handwritten caption.
2010-6412SUT.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; image 8 x 6 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001487740CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Crystal Palace (London, England)--Photographs
Exhibitions--England--London
Sculpture--England--London
Conservation & restoration--England--London
Sphinxes--England--London
Sydenham (London, England)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: England
London
Sydenham (London, England)

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