| Maker(s): | Frith, Francis | | Culture: | British (1822 - 1898)
| | Title: | Basilica of Our Lady of Africa, Algiers
| | Date Made: | ca 1872
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | albumen print
| | Place Made: | Algeria
| | Measurements: | mount: 14 7/8 x 12 in.; 37.7825 x 30.48 cm; image: 8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.; 20.955 x 16.1925 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | Inscribed on mount, l.r.: Algiers. Notre Dame de l'Afric, [Inscribed] on verso, in ink: Della L. Chadwick [crossed out]; inscribed in verso, in ink: M.A. Tappan
| | Accession Number: | SC 1982.38.414
| | Credit Line: | Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
church; religious building; basilica; French title: "Algiers. Notre Dame de l'Afric"; Afrique; Algiers; Probably right after its construction (which took 14 years) ca. 1872; architect: Jean-Eugene Fromageau; Founded by: Charles Lavigerie; Neo-Byzantine Style; Domes, crucifix, cross, basilica, catholic, Inscription on Apse reads: "Notre Dame d'Afrique, priez pour nous et pour les Musulmans" = "Our Landy of Africa, pray for us and for the Muslims".
Subjects:
Church buildings; Photography--Printing processes--Albumen Link to share this object record:
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