The Holy Sepulchre
- Description
- 1 photograph
- Albumen
- Creator
- Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
- Date
- 1875-01
- Collection
- Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 20.2 x 15.5 cm ( 8 x 6 in).
- Notes
- The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the background with the ruins of the Hospice of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in the foreground.
- The Preface notes that the photographs were taken for the Palestine Exploration Fund. The title page is inscribed "With the author's compliments." The photograph is accompanied by two pages of information about the view.
- Condition: Good; significant foxing of the matte
- Lazard dated the photograph to January 1875.
- Provenance
- Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection ; Sotheby's (London) ; 1988 April 15
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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