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Orientalism--Women, Orientalism--Women--Portraits, Clothing and dress, Clothing and dress--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

The photograph portrays a woman in typical Orientalist dress and pose, sitting on a sofa and smoking hookah. The Turkish woman portrayed in old...
Show moreThe photograph portrays a woman in typical Orientalist dress and pose, sitting on a sofa and smoking hookah. The Turkish woman portrayed in old Ottoman costume was a popular photographic genre at the end of the Nineteenth century.
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, numbered (115) and signed on the negative. Number in ink on the mount.
Main Heritage Compact General
HC.HP.2016.0053-0127
2-D Graphic
Item-ID: i23693563
BIB-ID: 2523806
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Biskra et ses environsBiskra and its surroundings

Bazaars (Markets), Orientalism--Women, Orientalism--Women--Portraits, Desert, Desert--Sahara

Photograph album collecting images of El Kantara Gorges, Sahara desert, market and streets of Biskra, date palms, a Moorish cafe, a caravan,...
Show morePhotograph album collecting images of El Kantara Gorges, Sahara desert, market and streets of Biskra, date palms, a Moorish cafe, a caravan, irrigation systems and prayers in the desert and two women portraits, one weaving and the other posing in a studio.
El Kantara. Les Gorges -- Le Désert du Sahara. Vue prise du Col de Sfa -- Biskra. Le Marché -- Biskra. Rue des Ouled Naïls -- Sahara Algérien. Palmiers Régime de Dattes -- Vieux Biskra. Une Rue -- Sahara Algérien. Un Café Maure -- Sahara Algérien. Caravane du Caïd Ben-Ganah -- Sahara Algérien. La Prière -- Sahara Algérien. Gourbi de Kamès, Femme tissant -- Sahara Algérien. Kattara, Puits à Irrigation aux Zibans -- Sahara Algérien. Femme des Ouled Naïls
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Title gilt-lettered in gold on the red cover. Each photograph - generally 18,5 x 12 cm - has typescript captions on the mount.
Main Heritage Compact General
HC.HP.2018.0220
2-D Graphic
Item-ID: i24956764
BIB-ID: 2528549
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Indigenous portraits from Egypt

People, People--Egypt--Portaits, Orientalism, Orientalism--Photographs, Professions, Professions--Egypt--Portraits

Photographs show two young water carriers and one blind beggar. Both these subjects were very common in Orientalism painting. Alexandre Brignoli...
Show morePhotographs show two young water carriers and one blind beggar. Both these subjects were very common in Orientalism painting. Alexandre Brignoli was an Italian professional photographer active in Cairo between 1860 and 1870. His studio was based at the Hôtel du Commerce and his production almost exclusively consists of Orientalist portraits. His work seemed to be more aimed at artists than almost any other commercial work in the Middle East and North Africa. See Ken Jacobson Odalisques & Arabesque: Oriental Photography 1839-1925, Quaritch, London, 2007.
Title and date devised by Library staff.
Main Heritage Compact General
HC.HP.2018.0256
2-D Graphic
Item-ID: i25237755
BIB-ID: 2686962
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