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La Syrie. Costumes, voyages, paysages, Syria. Costumes, journeys, landscapes
Charles Lallemand was a French writer who was active with his friend Ludvico Hart, an accomplished photographer. Both of them travelled to Egypt and Syria, taking collodion photographs for an illustrated book. Their offices were based in Strasbourg and they had A. Varroquier as their representative ...
The costume of Turkey: illustrated by a series of engravings = Costume de la Turquie : répresentè en soixante gravures, Costume de la Turquie, Costume de la Turquie
Text in English and French, 9 additional loose plates in a box., Main Heritage Compact General, GT1400 .C67 1802, 2-D Graphic, Plates, Item-ID: i24476183, BIB-ID: 2559371
Temple of Luxor, Dendera Temple
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0027, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26473951, BIB-ID: 2830110
Orient
Plates depict landscapes and architectural and street views of Constantinople and the Bosphorus., Album of watercolor views taken by the album retracing the journey of Émilien Frossard, the pastor of the Reformed Church and draftsman Pyrenees, who was appointed to organize the Protestant chaplaincy ...
Souvenirs de Constantinople
Plates include views of Constantinople and its surroudings, some costume subjects and, curiously enough, various forms of Turkish transport by Jean Brindesi, an Italian painter who worked primarily as a watercolour artist in Istanbul, during the Abdul-Majid period (1831-1861). He worked on scenes in ...
Watercolor drawing of a man in desert clothes
Watercolor drawing depicting a man, kneeling down, dressed in black desert clothes, recalling Tuareg people traditional costumes., Date from item, title devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption of the back of the frame " Dessiné par St Exupéry en 1943 / Cadeau de George Keller 1950", Main Heri ...
Prise de Jérusalem par le croisé 15 juillet 1099, The capture of Jerusalem by the crusaders on 15 July 1099
Jean Cocteau was a French poet, painter and filmmaker. This drawing was probably a preparatory work for the decoration of the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem (Our Lady of Jerusalem), a Catholic chapel of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon. At the origin of the chapel is Louis Martinon, a banker from N ...
Chameaux de mariage arabe, Arab wedding camels
The photographs shows 3 Arab wedding parade decorated camels., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed, numbered (not visible) and titled on the negative., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2017.0072, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24468824, BIB-ID: 2537260
Georgia and Caucasus
Photographs comprise views of Tbilisi, including Kura River and the Botanical Garden. Photographs of Bukhara, of Bukhara Emir's Horse, of Samarkand and of the Shah-i Zindah. Portrait of a cossack; views of Geok Tepe ruins, and a fortified village in Transcaucasia. View of the Goudimoff Gorge [?], of ...
Street portraits in Palestine
Views of Palestine, mostly taken in Jerusalem, including market scenes, animals (camels, donkeys), encampments and buildings. There are portraits of children, women, religious figures, Arabs and Jewish types, young and old men performing their daily life activities and Westerns, possibly Nadar's tra ...
Plafond de la partie centrale du grand salon et la coupole au dessus, The ceiling of the central part of the reception hall and the dome above
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption on the mount. On the verso manuscript initials "M.G.B.", Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0023-0001, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26375321, BIB-ID: 2815713
Bethlemitaine, Woman from Bethlehem
Title and date devised by Library staff. The photo is titled, numbered (2120) and signed "Dumas ph.t" in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2020.0018-0002, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26118269, BIB-ID: 2796276