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Louis Vignes 
Source du Wady Hasbany 
1864 (taken) 1879 (print) 
  
Photogravure 
7 3/4 x 10 1/8 ins 
  
Archive Farms 
 
LL/90742 
  
From Duc de Luynes, Voyage d'Exploration a la Mer Morte, a Petra, et sur la Rive Gauche du Jourdain. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, ca 1868-1874. Vignes accompanied the Duc de Luynes an archaeologist, numismatist and art collector on a trip to Lebanon and Palestine in 1864, despite of or because of his passionate amateur status as a photographer. He took calotypes and collodion negatives to record key places. The Duke chose Negre to make the prints and photogravures from Vignes photographs. 
 

 
  
 
  
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