The Great Belzoni, by Jan Adam Kruseman

An image of The Great Belzoni, 1824. Jan Adam Kruseman (Dutch, 1804-1862). Oil on canvas, height 85 cm, width 74.7 cm. Notes: Giovanni Battista Belzoni (Italian, 1778-1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities.

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The Great Belzoni, 1824. Jan Adam Kruseman (Dutch, 1804-1862). Oil on canvas, height 85 cm, width 74.7 cm. Notes: Giovanni Battista Belzoni (Italian, 1778-1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities.

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Accession Number: PD.1-2019
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 843 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 683.27kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 13/1

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