A view over the rooftops of Cairo.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
182 x 230 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.15
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view over the rooftops of a town. Printed within the photograph in white, bottom centre: '182. Le Caire'. The album page has Cairo handwritten on it. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Marks and inscriptions
Album page, below photo: Cairo