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2 x Victorian Albumen Photographs EYGPT GREAT PYRAMID Cheops c1870 #34





















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This is 1 of a number of antique albumen SEPIA photographs I have listed today...from about 1860-1890 or so ...they tend to be ARABIC men & women , BEDOINS - EGYPTIAN  - NORTH AFRICA - NILE related with actual NATIVE PEOPLE - SAILING SHIPS - EGYPT PYRAMIDS & ARCHAEOLOGY - ISLAMIC - MUSLIM ladies with the dress code of the period....... please check out the others.. you will see the photographs have originally been in an album and the stiff card pages usually have a photograph on EACH side..recto and verso... they are tipped in, some have slight edge curling of the photo and have become torn.... you will also see some have slight torn or raggy edges.. they were all like this when I got the collection and I have not attempted to take them off by soaking etc..I am going to leave that up to you .. to me I dont mind them being like this....you will also notice SOME of the photographs are STUDIO PORTRAITS with the back drop being material or painted boards ..not sure and some are actual REAL LIFE photographs.. some have the photographers name and wording or numberson the bottom.. I am told these are mainly albumen photographs.. and you can see they are prints of prints.. on a couple you can see the original torn areas of the original photo ... the photographers include Arnoux and Langahi as well as others.. both these chaps are famous in their own right..(some of the photographs LOOK like white women dressed up in Native costumes of the period..to me.. like you find nowadays at certain photographers studio to make you look like you were of the period or race of people...so I am not sure if the white ladies dressed in Arabic costume etc are in fact correct tribeswomen.)...I am sure you folks will know what you are buying..... some of the gentleman photographs are studio portraits too but they do LOOK correct tribesmen ...going by their feet, tribal scars and stature , hair types and rugged appearance etc... ..so I think these are right...period.. they are holding interesting things upon their person too..period of the photographs which I like. ...so PLEASE look at the ENLARGED photographs of each card so you can see what you are biddin or buying. ...remember in most cases there is a photo on each side of the card... all photographs are on the album pages.. these are 10 inch x nearly 14 inch ...so it does not take much to see how big each photograph is... they are exhibition size....... the sort of photograph you would purchase whilst on your GRAND TOUR... travelling around.

This lot ..my number #34..... I really like this photograph and you will similar photographs taken during this period by many photographers and travellers of the day.... this photo shows the ENTRANCE to the great pyramid...MASSIVE stones ... with men sat upon them.. they are really dwarfed by the hugeness of the stones.. there are 13 figures in the photo.. men and boys.. as well as GRAFFITI on the stones carved in... this would be an interesting photo to compare with the recent photographs. ..it has writing at the bottom but I can see no photographers name. ...the other side is a studio portrait of a young woman.                

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   The item(s) are shown next to an English 1 penny which is 20mm dia for scale.

Conversion ... approx... 2.5cm = 25mm = 1 inch

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