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    Museum collections / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Tête du Sphynx by Wilhelm Hammerschmidt
    Wilhelm Hammerschmidt. Tête du Sphynx, ca. 1860. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00024924

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    Tête du Sphynx

    by Wilhelm Hammerschmidt

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Wilhelm Hammerschmidt (German (born Prussia), ca. 1830–1869 Berlin)
    Date
    ca. 1860
    Medium
    Albumen silver print from glass negative
    Dimensions
    23.8 x 31.5 cm. (9 3/8 x 12 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Photograph
    Classification
    Photographs
    Department
    Photographs
    Credit line
    The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983
    Accession no.
    1983.1020

    Provenance

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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    Open-access museum data

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    Open-access museum record · AT-00024924

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