Asyut, View from the Mountain

Inscriptions

Written in reverse on recto of negative: "A Beato [signed]"; written in pencil on verso: "368/Assiout/vue prise de la montagne"; "AB-5286-Z"; "SIOUT"

Artist: Antonio Beato (British, c. 1825–1903)
Date: c. 1870s -1880
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Image: 20.1 x 25.9 cm (7 15/16 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: Gift of Virginia M. Zabriskie
Accession no.: 1993.97

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Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00012951
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.