Church of the Holy Sepulcre

Description
1 photograph
Albumen
Creator
Robertson & Beato
Date
1857-03
Collection
Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
30.5 x 24.3 cm ( 12.125 x9.5 in).
Notes
View of the Pool of Hezekiah and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre from a rooftop.
The photograph has been mounted on matte. The title, location and date are handwritten on the photograph. "The Mediterranean Hotel" is handwritten in pencil on the verso.
Condition: Good; some fading
Lazard notes that the name of the church is misspelled and "no. d'apres catalogue [Gambart] du PEF. x [...] marque en bas centre. Au verso du carton ecrit au crayon 'The Mediterranean Hotel."
Provenance
Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection ; Christies ; 1991 May 10
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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