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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Antoin Sevruguin, Achaemenid Tomb of Darius I (Inside View of Vault), Naqsh-i Rustam, Late 19th Century or ealry 20 Century
Antoin Sevruguin
Achaemenid Tomb of Darius I (Inside View of Vault), Naqsh-i Rustam, Late 19th Century or ealry 20 Century
Gelatin silver print
120 mm x 164 mm
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The numbers '61' and '1656' in white ink in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin appears on recto in the same location as the glass negative held in...
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The numbers "61" and "1656" in white ink in what may be the hand of Antoin Sevruguin appears on recto in the same location as the glass negative held in the Myron Bement Smith Collection of Antoin Sevruguin Photographs held in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. As in the case of the glass negative, the number "1656" is scratached out.

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Page 298 of “Persia Past and Present” by A.V. Williams Jackson which was published by The Macmillan Company in London in 1906. The print is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and titled “Interior of the Tomb of Darius”.

 

The glass negative of this image is held in the Myron Bement Smith Collection of Antoin Sevruguin Photographs held in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. The reference number is FSA A.4 2.12.GN.29.06 and the glass negative was a gift from Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985.

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