A bearded, turbanned man calling the faithful to prayer.
Category
Photographs
Date
1870 - 1890
Materials
Paper
Measurements
92 x 52 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520691.34
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting a full length portrait of a bearded and turbanned male. He is wearing dark clothes and appears to be making a sound, possibly the call to prayer as he is stood at the top of a tower or minaret. The print is mounted directly onto the page in the album. The portrait is one of a numbercollected into a section of the album devoted to Egypt.
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