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GUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-1884)
Lot 47

GUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-1884)

View across the Nile, 1867

Closed21 May 2010

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GBP 51,650

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GUSTAVE LE GRAY (1820-1884)
View across the Nile, 1867
albumen print, mounted on card
wetstamp fascimile signature (illustrated), titled 'cataractes Nil' in pencil (on the mount, recto)
12 3/8 x 24¼ in. (31.3 x 61.6 cm.)

Specialist note

An exceedingly rare print of this austere and minimal landscape from Le Gray's time in Egypt -- showing a vista of the cataracts that was destined to be lost in the raised water level after the construction of the Aswan dam.