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Objects in the South Kensington Museum, panel from a minbar erected by Mamluk Sultan Qaytbay in Cairo

Photograph
1887 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

A mounted albumen print showing an object from the V&A collections


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleObjects in the South Kensington Museum, panel from a minbar erected by Mamluk Sultan Qaytbay in Cairo (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph by Messrs. Mawe & Co., Objects in the South Kensington Museum, captioned 'Pulpit of Mimbar. Detail of Pulpit from mosque in Cairo', made by Sultan Qaytbay, (Paris Exhibition 1867) Bought (Meymar colln). made between 1468-1496, albumen print, late 19th century
Physical description
A mounted albumen print showing an object from the V&A collections
Marks and inscriptions
Translation
منبر للسلطان قايتباى
Object history
This photograph is from a set of photographs transferred in 1887 from the office of Robert Henry Soden Smith, (Keeper of the South Kensington Museum Library) to the photographic collection.
Subject depicted
Associated objects
Collection
Accession number
PH.180-1887

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Record createdJanuary 28, 2015
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