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The New York Obelisk, or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 50 | NUMBER 4

The New York Obelisk, or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here

D'Alton, Martina
1993
72 pages
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Martina D'Alton

Met Art in Publication

Relief of Thutmose III, Limestone, paint
Relief of Thutmose III
ca. 1458–1425 B.C.
Moving the Vatican Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", Natale Bonifacio Italian, Etching, printed from three plates
Moving the Vatican Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Multiple artists/makers
1586
Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle", Bronze
Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle"
13 B.C.
Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle", Bronze
Crab from "Cleopatra's Needle"
13 B.C.

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D’Alton, Martina, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, eds. 1993. The New York Obelisk, or, How Cleopatra’s Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams.