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Collection of four full-length standing and seated portraits of members of families of sharifs in Mecca, namely Sharif Mohammed Shahin, 'Abdallah, son of Sharif Yahya al-'Umari and Sharif Ahmad, son of Sharif Hashim – both aged 20. The photographs were probably taken in Mecca between 1885 and 1887 by Snouck Hurgronje and by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) - three out of four portraits can be attributed to the latter. The negatives had hand-work applied: the original backgrounds have been substituted completely except for the carpet in the upper-right photograph., Title and date from item. Plate no. 16 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889).The plate is numbered (XVI) and titled in German under the image. The titles of the single photographs are devised based on the records of the Snouck Hurgronje Papers at the University of Leiden., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.02074-0016, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26506956, BIB-ID: 2831368 |
