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[View with 'Memento Homo' Inscription]
Nadar1861
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
View down a tunnel inside the Paris Catacombs. The tunnel wall is lined with carefully arranged human skulls and tibia bones, and lit with artificial light. In the center of the tunnel on the right side of the image stands a stone pillar with the biblical words, "Memento homo quia pulvis es, et in pulverim reverteris" carved into one of the stones.
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Details
- Title: [View with 'Memento Homo' Inscription]
- Creator: Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]
- Date Created: 1861
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Physical Dimensions: 25 × 19.1 cm (9 7/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XM.436.475
- Culture: French
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (French, 1820 - 1910)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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