Camels resting in the Sherkiyeh.
Drawn on stone by Lehnert after E. Prisse Esq.r. James Madden, London. [1851.] Tinted lithograph. Printed area 265 x 360mm (10½ x 14¼"). A scene of three pack camels and their driver, published in the 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life, in the Valley of the Nile'. The artist, Achille-Constant-Theodore Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-79), was a French orientalism who embraced Islam and took the name Edris-Effendi. Attabay: 1001; Blackmer 1357.
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