Sujet

'The famous wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, Cairo, Egypt', 1905.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Légende

'The famous wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, Cairo, Egypt', 1905.' Statue held by the National Museum of Egypt. 'These portrait statues were intended to be more durable bodies, false bodies, which should take the place of the real bodies when the latter should have perished. The statue would then still serve the deceased as his old body had done, connecting him, as he thought, with the world of real and substantial existence. Thus it was that while the sculptor knew that his work was to be buried forever, he was obliged by the person whose portrait he executed from life, to make an exact reproduction of his model's person.' Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1905

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM19C40_004

Model release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,5Mo (2,4Mo) / 34,5cm x 36,7cm / 4080 x 4330 (300dpi)

Mots clés

se tenir possession personnes gens mâle homme hommes pays Le Caire statue type musée Égyptien la mort endroit siècle personnel photographie copie concept B&W MONOCHROME noir et blanc noir et blanc B W Égyptien de l'Antiquité les années 1900 20e siècle Égypte antique The Print Collector Egypt Through the Stereoscope National Museum of Egypt Shekh-el-Beled wooden statue photographie stereoscopic card James Henry Underwood & Underwood Keystone James Henry Breasted Breasted photographie