A view of The Citadel, Cairo.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
186 x 235 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.19
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a view over old buildings with a large mosque in the background. The album page has Citadel 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
On album page, below photo: Citadel Cairo