Wassileh and Lhedeh, Ghawagea

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Artist: Ernest Benecke (German (born England), 1817–1894)
Date: 1852
Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions: Mount: 17 5/8 in. × 12 7/16 in. (44.8 × 31.6 cm) Image: 8 9/16 × 6 7/8 in. (21.8 × 17.4 cm)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.254

[Children from the Village of Kalabshah, Nubia]
Ernest Benecke
1852 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025614
[Two Women]
Ernest Benecke
1852 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025845
Autopsy of the First Crocodile Onboard, Upper Egypt
Ernest Benecke
1852 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025911
Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo
Ernest Benecke
April 22, 1852 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025912

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.