Image: Cimetière des musulmans à Damas

Description: Engraving of one of the first photographs of the Muslim cemetery of Damascus. Daguerreotype photograph taken by Pierre-Gustave Joly (Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière) in March, 1840. Engraved by Antoine Jean Weber. Published in Excursions daguerriennes, Noël Paymal Lerebours publisher, in 1841. Excerpts from the accompanying text, written by Pierre-Gustave Joly, published in Excursions daguerriennes (this text is in the public domain, like the image): "[...] This plate shows only a small part of the Muslim cemetery of Damas. The mosque in the center is the tomb of a prince; the grilled cages surround and protect the graves of the rich; the numerous tumular stones mark the graves of the poor, and are often walked on by the passers-by. [...] In the background, the Anti-Lebanon Mountains can be seen [...] "
Title: Cimetière des musulmans à Damas
Credit: Special Collections of the University of St Andrews (image)
Author: Photographer: Pierre-Gustave Joly (1798-1865) Engraver: Antoine Jean Weber (1797-1875)
Permission: The original image is in the public domain. In jurisdictions where faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art may be copyrightable, this particular reproduction is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 2.5 Canada (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 CA) by the Special Collections Division, University of St Andrews.
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