View of the two giant figures depicting the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II, copied from the temple at Abu Simbel, in the Tropical transept at the north end of the Crystal Palace

Date:: 1854 - 1866

Location:: Crystal Palace, Sydenham Hill, Bromley, Greater London Authority, SE19

Reference:: FF91/00333

Type:: Photograph (Transparency)

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Description

This view is probably by Delamotte who took two earlier series of photographs of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. It is hand coloured, and reproduces the decorative scheme for the Palace devised by Owen Jones.

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This is part of the Collection: DLM03 Hand-coloured transparencies of Philip Delamotte images of Crystal Palace

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Photographer: Delamotte, Philip Henry

Curator: Birks, David