Arnaut Guardhouse in Cairo

Etcher Paul Adolphe Rajon French

After Jean-Léon Gérôme French

1868

Not on view

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Title: Arnaut Guardhouse in Cairo
Etcher: Paul Adolphe Rajon (French, Dijon 1843–1888 Auvers-sur-Oise)
Artist: After Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, Vesoul 1824–1904 Paris)
Date: 1868
Medium: Etching; proof before letters
Dimensions: sheet: 17 13/16 x 12 in. (45.2 x 30.5 cm)
plate: 11 x 8 1/4 in. (28 x 21 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Object Number: 68.673.19
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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