Caption

La Prière, Groups of people praying, page, photomechanical print, maker: Léon Niepce, cliché maker: Meisenbach, Riffarth & Cie., Munich, c. 1893 - in or before 1898, Bavaria, paper, autotypie, height 225 mm x width 144 mm, Prints opposite page 140., prayer, Islam, Mohammedanism, A vertical image showing two sepia-toned rectangular photographs stacked with a pale border around them, each depicting a wide outdoor scene of numerous figures draped in light-colored cloths arranged in rows across a dark ground, with a low, distant treeline along the horizon and a light sky above, the upper photograph showing figures seated and slightly turned while the lower photograph shows figures prostrate on the ground, both framed by a narrow darker inner border and surrounded by an aged paper background.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B03_320

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34.9Mb (12.0Mb) / 9.2in x 14.7in / 2762 x 4418 (300dpi)

Keywords

La Prière Groups people praying page photomechanical print maker Léon Niepce cliché maker Meisenbach Riffarth & Cie Munich c 1893 - 1898 Bavaria paper autotypie height 225 mm x width 144 mm Prints opposite page 140 prayer Islam Mohammedanism vertical image showing two sepia-toned rectangular photographs stacked pale border them depicting wide outdoor scene numerous figures draped light-colored cloths arranged rows across dark ground low distant treeline horizon light sky upper photograph figures seated slightly turned lower photograph figures prostrate ground framed narrow darker inner border surrounded aged paper background