Studio portrait of Abdullah Bin Alawi, also known as Prince Abudin, the son of a deposed Sultan of Nzwani Island, in the Comoros Archipelago, who had once represented his father as an ambassador to Mauritius. Though in reality no longer a prince, in early 1858 he managed to convince the British Poli ...
Title and date devised by Library staff. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0029, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2647444x, BIB-ID: 2830135
View of the mosque complex of Tekkiye Mosque, on the banks of the Barada River. The last was built on the ruins of Qasr al-Ablaq by the Ottoman Sultan Süleyman I or Sulayman al-Qanuni between 1554 and 1560., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, numbered (404) an ...
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph has caption both in French and in German on the mount and it is signed in the negative., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2016.0080, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23323498, BIB-ID: 2496883
The album, possibly a unique copy, it is the second edition, in a smaller format (wide in-4) of the 1841 elephant folio publication Panorama d'Egypte et du Nubie by the French architect and Egyptologist Hector Horeau, who travelled extensively in Egypt between 1837 and 1839. During his stay in Thebe ...
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 ...
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
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, numbered (408) and signed on the negative but these last are no more visible., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0104, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24470326, BIB-ID: 2537296
