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Great pyramid of Ghizeh, Landscape view print

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Great pyramid of Ghizeh, Landscape view print

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Print shows the Great Pyramid of Jīzah with many stones scattered about the landscape, with a small group of travelers on the lower left center, some with camels, one on horseback. They may have stopped to eat and are cleaning up, or may be packing up artifacts removed from the pyramid.

Possibly a trial proof lacking printed title.
Inscribed in ink on lower right: Great pyramid of Ghizeh. orig'y 764 ft. sqr. (now but 746) 13 acres. perp. hght. of 480 ft. (now 450 ft.) }Top is about 30' sqr.
Inscribed in pencil on upper right: fol. vii.
Illus. may have been published in: Great pyramid : Hieroglyphic and other writing in Campbell's chamber. London : James Fraser, Publisher, 215, Regent St., 1839.
A similar print titled "View of the Third Pyramid" printed by Day & Haghe, lithrs. to the Queen, was published in: Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix. By Colonel Howard Vyse. London : J. Fraser, 1840-42, opp. p. 154.

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01/01/1839
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ʻAjūzah (Jīzah, Egypt)
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