Not currently on display at the V&A

Entrance of a house from an alley, Cairo

Photograph
late 1800s (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A mounted sepia-coloured topographical photograph of Cairo, Egypt.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleEntrance of a house from an alley, Cairo (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph by unknown photographer (maybe B. Facchinelli), captioned 'A lane'. Cairo, Egypt, albumen print, late 19th century
Physical description
A mounted sepia-coloured topographical photograph of Cairo, Egypt.
Credit line
Presented by Harold Wallis, Esq., 28 August 1917
Object history
Part of a group of originally 191 photographs presented by Harold Wallis, Esq. of Purley, 28 August 1912. Many were later 'withdrawn' as duplicates
Place depicted
Associations
Collection
Accession number
1061-1917

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Record createdJanuary 30, 2014
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