The Alexandrian obelisk (Cleopatra's needle)

The Alexandrian obelisk (Cleopatra's needle)

RP-F-2001-7-1549-2

• number: ‘Plate I’
• inscription: ‘Alexandria, Egypt, October, 1879’

• photographer: anonymous, Heliopolis
• clichémaker: Harroun & Bierstadt (possibly)
• printer: Harroun & Bierstadt (mentioned on object), New York (city)

1879-10

artotype

height 200 mm x width 280 mm

Prent tegenover pagina 1.

Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

purchase 2001

Public domain

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200652211