Studio portrait of a man with white beard sitting on bench, smoking hookah, Egypt
1872
The subject is dressed in a turban and a large coat, he holds prayer beads in his left hand. The floor and the bench are covered with carpets, on the left a curtain.
Aniline-tinted albumen silver print
comp.: 11.1 x 7.4 cm secondary support: 13.1 x 8.2 cm sheet: 11.1 x 7.4 cm
PH1980:0683.02:017
inscribed - Cheik Arabe (originally on print, now removed and remounted below image, lower centre, in script, in brown ink)
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