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The Great Sphinx of Giza by Maxime Du Camp, 1849, taken when he traveled in Egypt with Gustave Flaubert
The Sphinx by Maxime Du Camp, 1849.
The first photographs of the Sphinx were taken in 1849 by Maxime Du Camp and published in 1852 in one of the earliest books to be illustrated with real photographic prints made from negatives - in this case calotype paper negatives.
Du Camp traveled with Flaubert in Egypt between 1849 and 1851. 'No drawing I have seen conveys a proper idea of it,' wrote Flaubert, 'the best thing is an excellent photograph that Max took.' In one of Du Camp's two photographs, the benefits of the recent sand-clearances are still to be seen. In the background is the pyramid of Menkaure. Khafre's pyramid is out of frame to the right.
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