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[Carving a Sphinx] — Philip Henry Delamotte. [Carving a Sphinx], 1854. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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[Carving a Sphinx]

by Philip Henry Delamotte

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Artist: Philip Henry Delamotte (British, 1821–1889)
Date: 1854
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952
Accession no.: 52.639.59

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