[埃及方尖碑，“埃及艳后之针”，埃及亚历山大] - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	[埃及方尖碑，“埃及艳后之针”，埃及亚历山大]
品名（英）	[Egyptian Obelisk, "Cleopatra's Needle," in Alexandria, Egypt]
入馆年号	2004年，2004.217
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Francis Frith【1822 至 1898】【英国人】
创作年份	公元 1861 - 公元 1879
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 15.5 x 20.8 厘米 (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	中央公园方尖碑坐落在19世纪末的环境中，是亚历山大港一个被忽视的地区。这张照片没有捕捉到的是附近的新建筑，这表明港口正在进行现代化建设。正是这种发展创造了一种氛围，1880年，埃及民族主义者认为方尖碑应该留在埃及，作为该国古代的象征。然而，赫迪夫·伊斯梅尔已经将方尖碑交给了美国，亨利·戈林格正在迅速安排将其运往纽约市。弗里斯和后来的工作人员拍摄了埃及古代的照片，经常与当地人一起拍摄。去过埃及的人，或者可能只梦想去那里旅行的人，可以从该公司的库存中选择一系列印刷品，并将其装订起来作为纪念，就像大约三百年前出版的《罗马显像》一样。
介绍（英）	Here the Central Park obelisk sits in its late nineteenth-century environment, a neglected area of the Alexandria harbor. What this photograph did not capture was the new buildings going up nearby, indicating the harbor was undergoing modernization. It was this development that created an atmosphere in which Egyptian nationalists in 1880 argued that the obelisk should remain in Egypt as a symbol of the country’s antiquity. However, Khedive Ismail had already given the obelisk to the United States, and Henry Gorringe was quickly arranging its transportation to New York City. Frith, and later his staff, captured pictures that illustrated Egypt’s antiquity, frequently with local people as part of the scene. People who had traveled to Egypt, or perhaps only dreamed of traveling there, could choose a series of prints from the company’s stock and have them bound as a souvenir, much like Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae published some three hundred years earlier.