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BONFILS (FELIX) The Temple of the Sun at Balbeek, Lebanon, LARGE ALBUMEN PRINT, c.1870 image 1
BONFILS (FELIX) The Temple of the Sun at Balbeek, Lebanon, LARGE ALBUMEN PRINT, c.1870 image 2
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BONFILS (FELIX)
The Temple of the Sun at Balbek, Lebanon, LARGE ALBUMEN PRINT, c.1870

7 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, Knightsbridge

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BONFILS (FELIX)

The Temple of the Sun at Balbek, Lebanon, LARGE ALBUMEN PRINT, mounted as issued, signed ("Bonfils 16") in the negative, ink caption ("Balbek (Sonnentempel)" in lower margin, image 390 x 295mm., sheet 645 x 480mm., c.1870

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Striking large format view of the great colonnade of six columns of the Temple of the Sun at Baalbek, visited by the French photographer Felix Bonfils (1831-1885) in about 1870.

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