JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (1804-1892)

[Jerusalem, Al Wad, rue dans la vieille ville, 1844]

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JOSEPH-PHILIBERT GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (1804-1892)
[Jerusalem, Al Wad, rue dans la vieille ville, 1844]
daguerreotype
7½ x 4¾in. (19 x 12cm.)

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This view is thought to be of a building in Al-Wad Street in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City, Jerusalem. The enclosed walls, small arched windows and arched tunnel of the passageway are typical of the architecture that can be seen there today.

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