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[Artotypes of the removal, transport and erection of Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in Egyptian obelisks]

[Artotypes of the removal, transport and erection of Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in Egyptian obelisks] Plate no. I

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Title Statement	[Artotypes of the removal, transport and erection of Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in Egyptian obelisks]
Subject	Obelisks -- Egypt -- Alexandria Cleopatra's needle (New York, N.Y.) Obelisks -- Great Britain -- London Obelisks -- Rome Archaeology -- Egypt Excavations (Archaeology) -- Egypt
Format (Extent)	31 photomechanical prints : artotypes ; 36 x 27 cm
Description	"31 Artotype illustrations from photographs, one mounted and glazed, produced by Harroun and Bierstadt, and E. Bierstadt, New York. ...The Artotypes in this book are some of the finest produced by Bierstadt. The pictorial record of this engineering feat is remarkable in itself; casing and tilting the obelisk, loading it into the side of the ship by removing part of the hull, pulling it out on a special dock in the Hudson and then moving it by custom made rail from the river to the site next to the Metropolitan Museum. The illustrations show the hieroglyphics, now mostly lost due to New York's polluted air, bright and clear."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 82
Imprint	London : John C. Nimmo, 1885
Contributors	Gorringe, Henry H. (Henry Honeychurch), 1841-1885. Egyptian obelisks Bierstadt, Edward, 1824-1907 Allaire, W. M Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928 Harroun & Bierstadt
Note	In: Egyptian obelisks / by Henry H. Gorringe. London : John C. Nimmo, 1885 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source	Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Hanson Catalog Number	D.A.H.Cat., 1885:9
Call Number	NE2606 E38
Repository	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library 225 South Street, Williamstown, Mass., 01267
Collection	David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical reproduction
Language	eng
Date	1885
Country	enk
Genre/Form	Artotypes Collotypes

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Title Statement	[Artotypes of the removal, transport and erection of Cleopatra's Needle from Egypt to the Metropolitan Museum in New York in Egyptian obelisks] Plate no. I
Additional Title	The Alexandrian obelisk. (Cleopatra's needle) Alexandria, Egypt, October, 1879
Format (Extent)	1 photomechanical print : artotype ; 36 x 27 cm
Description	"31 Artotype illustrations from photographs, one mounted and glazed, produced by Harroun and Bierstadt, and E. Bierstadt, New York. ...The Artotypes in this book are some of the finest produced by Bierstadt. The pictorial record of this engineering feat is remarkable in itself; casing and tilting the obelisk, loading it into the side of the ship by removing part of the hull, pulling it out on a special dock in the Hudson and then moving it by custom made rail from the river to the site next to the Metropolitan Museum. The illustrations show the hieroglyphics, now mostly lost due to New York's polluted air, bright and clear."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 82
Imprint	London : John C. Nimmo, 1885
Contributors	Gorringe, Henry H. (Henry Honeychurch), 1841-1885. Egyptian obelisks Bierstadt, Edward, 1824-1907 Allaire, W. M Cozzens, Frederic Schiller, 1846-1928 Harroun & Bierstadt
Note	In: Egyptian obelisks / by Henry H. Gorringe. London : John C. Nimmo, 1885 -- Title supplied by cataloger
Source	Forms part of the David A. Hanson Collection of the History of Photomechanical Reproduction
Hanson Catalog Number	D.A.H.Cat., 1885:9
Call Number	NE2606 E38
Repository	Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library 225 South Street, Williamstown, Mass., 01267
Collection	David A. Hanson collection of the history of photomechanical reproduction
Language	eng
Date	1885
Country	enk
Genre/Form	Artotypes Collotypes

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