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298 - Antonio Béato (Italian, 1835-1906), Luigi Fiorillo (Italian,…
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Antonio Béato (Italian, 1835-1906), Luigi Fiorillo (Italian, 1847-1898), Félix Bonfils (French, 1831-1885), Frères Zangaki (Greek, active around 1875-1899), Andréas D. Reiser (German, 1840-1898) Urban and rural Egypt, architecture, lively street scenes, trades, markets, ruins and monuments of ancient Egypt... c. 1860-1890. 196 albumen prints presented on red hardback leaves, under tabs. In a strong album bound in green half-binding, the boards covered with dominoté paper. The five-ribbed spine is gilt-lettered "EGYPT". The prints are mounted on the leaves by glue dots at the corners or on the sides. Photographs by format: 37 x 28 cm (5), 21 x 27.5 cm (176), 23 x 12 cm (2), 17 x 13 cm (4) and 10 x 13 cm (9). Album: Height 32 Width 23.5 Depth 9 cm. Condition: most of the albumen prints are in a good state of preservation but sometimes show yellowing around the edges. Provenance: collection of a chief engineer of the Suez Canal Company who served between 1901 and 1918; by descent, private collection, Touraine. Photo album of 196 images of urban and rural Egypt taken between 1860 and 1890, particularly by Beato, Fiorillo, Bonfils, the Zangaki Brothers and Reiser. Provenance: by descent, collection of the Chief Engineer of the Suez Canal Company between 1901 and 1918. Bibliography : - Max Boucard and Frédéric Régamey, En Dahabieh, Paris, éditions J. Ducher, 1889. - Jacques Jomier, Le Mahmal et la caravane égyptienne des pèlerins de la Mecque (XIIIe XXe siècles), Cairo, Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1953. The album opens with 11 views of the "Carpet" ceremony and the pilgrimage to Mecca. It closes with a photograph by Elliot and Fry of Lord Cromer (Evelyn Baring of Cromer), the British Consul General in Egypt from 1883 to 1907. The photographs depict various places in Egypt, including: Cairo (public fountain, tombs, mosque; Alkankah; French Embassy (bronze door, fountain, room); Karnak; Abydos; Philae; Kom Omb; Luxor; Nazar; Elephantine Island; Aswan; Medinet Habu; Deir el-Bahari; Edfu; Denderah; Bab el-Nasr; Gezieh Palace; bas-reliefs of Izis, Cleopatra; as well as animated views and trades including: Cairo donkeys and donkeys; copperware shop; itinerant merchants; snake charmer; group of seated women; date harvest; "Pharmacie Française"; banks of the Nile; palm grove; kitchen utensils market at Boulaq Remarkable views, including a stone transport on the Nile; the path leading to the Pyramids, built by Ismaïl Pacha to receive Empress Eugénie; the Pyramids during the flood; colossal statue at Memphis; the Sphinx of Giza, partly desanded. The five large-format photographs, 37 x 28 cm, are probably all by Antonio Béato. They were folded in the middle at the time to fit into the album. They are "Middle columns" of the temple of Karnak; Zchadouf 621; Philae, eastern view 515 A. Béato; Philae, south-east view. There is also a very fine view of a Dahabieh flying the flag of the United States of America as it sails down the Nile. This boat is driven by twelve rowers in uniform, at rest for the shot. Twelve figures look towards the photographer: three or four passengers, these crew members, employees and guide. This type of Dahabieh probably has around twenty cabins. Examples of the classification of the first photographs, captioned (sic) and numbered, with interruptions in the numbering: 2 "Carpet" ceremony: return of the caravan from Mecca: view of the pilgrims; 3 "Sais mosque"; 5 Cairo "Carpet" Mosque and Sultan Hassan. Arrival Mahmal Place Méhemet Ali Cairo; 6. Departure of the carpet from Cairo; 7 "Carpet" N°1; 8 Carpet; 9 The carpet accompanied: written in pencil "tapi à la citadelle"; 10 Written in pencil: "al Bab el Naz"; 11 "tapi"; 12 Saïs Mosque; 13 Kiosk in Philé (Philae); Unnumbered: The kiosk in Philae (Depiction of 6 children). Unnumbered: Arab girls selling water. 41; 20 Maison Saïd Old Palace Cairo; 21 Cairo. Bab el Rakalil; 22 Cairo. Crowning decoration beyond the walls; 26 Cairo. Babel Mito Ali; 28 264. Cairo. Banks of the Nile. L. Fiorillo photograph. 253. Cairo. Harvesting dates. L. Fiorelli photograph; 32 Idem. 297. Cairo. Surroundings of Boulac. Fiorillo. 278. Cairo. Arab village on the banks of the Nile. 289. Cairo. The Khalig. Fiorillo; 31 Cairo. Al Kan Kalil Street; 34 Cairo. Butcher al Kab el Maire Yves Di Maria
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