Not on display

A traditional café, Cairo

Photograph
1887-1908 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Lekegian, G. (Mr) (photographer)
Lekegian, Gabriel (photographer)
Place of origin
Cairo (photographed)
Egypt (photographed)

A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of a coffe shop facade with three men in traditional Middle Eastern dress sitting out front on a bench.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Architecture
Topography
Archaeology
Historic Cairo
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • A traditional café, Cairo (generic title)
  • Café Arabe (published title)
Materials and techniques
Platinotype
Photographic Paper
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by Lekegian & Co., captioned 'Café Arabe'. Cairo, Egypt, platinotype, 1887-1908
Physical description
A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of a coffe shop facade with three men in traditional Middle Eastern dress sitting out front on a bench.
Gallery label
(2019-2020)
Trades

Photographs showing craftspeople at work are rare in this period. Few people felt such ordinary activities were worth recording. We appreciate these images now for the insight they give us not only into how objects were made, but also the lives of the people making them. These examples by the Armenian photographer Gabriel Lékégian show coppersmiths and wood turners practicing their craft in workshops open to the street.

5. A traditional café
About 1887-95
Gabriel Lékégian
Museum no. PH.1408-1896
Credit line
Purchased from Mr. Somers Clarke, 11 June 1896
Subject depicted
Cafes
Place depicted
Cairo
Associations
Egypt
Cairo
Other number
187 - G. Lekegian & Co. inventory number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.1408-1896

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Record createdAugust 21, 2014
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1298979/a-traditional-café-cairo-photograph-lekegian-g-mr/
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