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Two men drinking at a public fountain in Egypt., The photograph is titled and signed in the negative. Date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0046, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24447304, BIB-ID: 2537229, "Henri Béchard operated a photographic studio in Cairo in the Ezbekiah Garden district from which he sold rather standard tourist views, as well as a series of types and costume studies. In 1888 he published with A. Palmiere, a set of photogravures, “L'Égypte et la Nubie.” [...] Béchard had the photographic concession at the Cairo antiquities museum and produced the handsome Album du Musée Boulaq: Photographie par Délié et Béchard, avec texte explicatif par Auguste Marriette Bey (Cairo, 1872). The partnership was dissolved sometime after publication and both continued to work in Egypt as commercial photographers. Both received medals at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition". Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography / John Hannavy ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, p. 131. |
