1860sAngkor

Angkor Wat

Period photograph. Early camera records of the site include Émile Gsell (1866) and John Thomson. The photographer of this specific scan is not fixed on the file.

Street photograph

Angkor Wat, 1860s. Period photograph. Early camera records of the site include Émile Gsell (1866) and John Thomson. The photographer of this specific scan is not fixed on the file.. Street photograph. — 1860s·Angkor
Angkor Wat
Period photograph. Early camera records of the site include Émile Gsell (1866) and John Thomson. The photographer of this specific scan is not fixed on the file.
Street photograph · Surviving

What this plate shows

The main temple photographed from the ground: towers, galleries, vegetation on the stone. A camera at Angkor in the 1860s, among the first generation of photographs of the site. Present status: surviving. Do not treat the plate as a drawing, and do not invent a photographer where the file does not name one.

Image type: Street photograph
Structure: Angkor Wat
Region: Asia
Documented completion: 12th century (Suryavarman II).
Architect: Not named on this plate.
Present status: Surviving — The temple still stands. Photographer of this scan is uncertain — recorded as uncertain. Identification of the structure is not.
Source: Wikimedia Commons scan of a nineteenth-century photograph of Angkor Wat.
License: Public domain (nineteenth-century photograph; Gsell died 1879, Thomson died 1921).

Collections where this plate appears

05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.