Los 4018

Béchard, Henri
(active in Egypt, 1870s-1880s)Market and street scenes in Cairo, Thèbes and Port d' Assouan

Aus dem Katalog
Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts
Auktionsdatum 8.6.2022

Market and street scenes in Cairo, Thèbes and Port d' Assouan. Mid-1870s. 5 albumen prints. Circa 27 x 21,5 cm and reverse. Each with photographer's name in lower right corner, as well as numbered and titled in lower left in the negative, mounted to card (slightly buckled, slight traces of use), collector's stamp in lower right corner on the mount.

The images show an Arabian café, a spice seller at the market, women washing laundry, Thèbes and Port d'Assouan. – Some surface scuff marks, otherwise strong prints with a rich chocolate-brown tone and in very good condition.

Lit.: Ken Jacobson. Odalisques and Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. London 2007, see pp. 210-212.