Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

1844 · Daguerreotype · Photographs

Girault here deploys a figure (a man with one foot propped on a pile of rubble) to accentuate his subject: the stump of an arch identified in 1838 by the scholar Edward Robinson. Excavations in the twentieth century revealed that the once-wide stone arch had supported a monumental staircase at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, connecting it to the lower market.

Artist

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

Date

1844

Medium

Daguerreotype

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016 (2016.608)