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العربية: أبو الهول، بعد أن أُزيلت عنه الرمال وكُشف جسده، ويبدو هرمان في الخلفيَّة.
English: The Great Sphinx of Giza, partially excavated, with two pyramids in background. Albumen print.
Français : "Le Sphynx apres les déblaiements et les deux grandes pyramides / Bonfils."
Date between 1867 and 1899
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1867-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Created/published. Most probably in De l'Égypte et de la Nubie, vol. 1-2, éd. Bonfils, Alais (Alès, FR), 1878.
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Cf. Remembrances of the near east : the photographs of Bonfils, 1867-1906, curator Robert A. Sobieszek, Rochester : International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House; Cambridge : Harvard Semitic Museum, 1980 and The image of the East : nineteenth-century Near Eastern photographs by Bonfils : from the collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum, Carney E.S. Gavin; compiled and edited by Ingeborg Endter O'Reilly, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Author Maison Bonfils (Beirut, Lebanon), photographers : Félix (1831-1885), his wife, Lydie (1837-1918) and his son, Adrien (1861-1929). Most possible done by Félix
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