The Great Sphinx of Giza (photo by Maxime Du Camp)
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The Great Sphinx of Giza (1849) is the informal title of a photo by Maxime Du Camp, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert.
The Sphinx's head and shoulders look out from the hole dug by Karl Richard Lepsius.
This calotype, taken in 1848 by Maxime du Camp, is one of the first known photographs of the Sphinx, taken only four years after the Giza plateau was mapped by Lepsius and his German expedition, and fifty years after the Sphinx was sketched by Vivant Denon in the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
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