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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Antoin Sevruguin, Khamrameh Palace Garden, Shemiran, Late 19th Century
Antoin Sevruguin
Khamrameh Palace Garden, Shemiran, Late 19th Century
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Antoin Sevrugion photographs of Persia, 1880s-1890s, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 2017.R.25-17. Titled: "Khamrameh (Schimran)". Numbered in negative "1119".

 

Stephen Arpee Collection of Sevruguin Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 2011. Museum number: FSA A2011.03 A.53b. Titled: "Kamraniyya Palace Complex and Garden".

 

"The photo depicts the palace complex of Kamraniyya, built around 1880s by Kamran Mirza, Nasir al-Din Shah's third and favorite son. The garden of the complex was known for its exotic and extensive kinds of trees and greenery." [Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Curatorial Research Assistant].

 

This image is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and appears in the "History of Photography and Pioneer Photographers" in Iran by Yahya Zoka. Published in 1997 by Offset Press Inc., Tehran. The image is described in Parsi as "Kamran Mirza's Park, Waterfalls and Fountains in Shemiran".

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