The Great Pyramid of Cheops

BPLDC no.: 08_04_000018

Page Title: The Great Pyramid of Cheops

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 17)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page with a photograph of three Egyptian men with camels standing in front of the Cheops Pyramid, annotated with information about the pyramid's history and construction.

Subjects:
Egypt
travel photography
pyramids (tombs)
Jīzah, Ahrāmāt al-

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations:
“It shuts out the sky and the horizon. It shuts out the other pyramids. It shuts out every thing but a sense of awe and wonder.”
Lepsius dates it back B.C. 3091. 67. E.A. Wallis Budge of British Museum 3733. B.C. Miss Edwards + Mariette 4.200 B.C. Herodotus says 100.000 men were occupied in building the road over which the stone for its construction was brought and 20 years more on its erection — This stone, 85.000.000 cubic feet, was taken from the quarries of Tura & Masara 20 to 30 miles away. It is now 451 feet high and was originally 480 ft. Each of its four sides is 755 ft long, and the Pyramid covers thirteen acres of ground. At sunset its shadow stretches out ¾ of a mile.

Language: English, photograph has French title

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1:
Photographer: G. Lékégian & Cie.

Title: Gd. Pyramide de Cheops. No 15

Caption: The Great Pyramid of Cheops

Date: ca. 1865-1895