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1885141111885. Set of two vintage Albumen photographs 8 1/4" X 10-1/2" 8.25" x 10.5" made in the 1800s. Unmounted. First photo shows a view of the Pyramids with a foreground of Palm Trees and Native men on Camels. The Sphinx can be seen in the distance. Etched into the lower left of the photograph are the words "Palmiers & Pyramides vue Generale 494" and in the lower right the photographer's mark "JP Sebah." Very clean condition with a few small flaws in the emulsion. Pascal Sébah opened his photography studio in Istanbul in 1857 and by 1873 was successful enough to open another studio in Cairo. After he died in 1886 the studio was managed by his brother Cosmi until Pascal's son Jean joined him in 1888. Due to the mark this is most likely a photograph by Jean Pascal Sebah. An excellent example. Second photo captures a scene on the Nile in Egypt with pyramids in the background by Cosmi Sebah. The photographer's signature in the negative lower right recto. Several minor scattered imperfections including a waviness throughout. Overall condition is good. unknown
1885140641885. Zangaki photograph of the Sphinx and Pyramids circa 1870s records the Giza plateau through the commercial photographic practice that shaped European and American visual knowledge of Egypt in the late nineteenth century. The Zangaki brothers Greek photographers active in Ottoman Egypt from the 1870s into the 1890s specialized in views of ancient monuments urban scenes and daily life producing albumen prints for travelers and the expanding tourist market. This image supports research into archaeological tourism Orientalist visual culture early commercial photography in Egypt and the circulation of ancient Egyptian monuments as collectible photographic subjects.<br /> <br /> Albumen photograph by Zangaki circa 1870s. The unmounted sepia print measures 8.5 x 10.9 inches and shows the Sphinx in the foreground with the Pyramids rising behind it using depth and monumentality to place the viewer within one of the most widely circulated nineteenth-century Egyptian views. The composition belongs to the commercial photographic vocabulary of the period when photographers working from Cairo Port Said and Nile-route studios produced portable images for visitors who wanted material records of antiquity travel and empire-era encounter.<br /> <br /> Unounted with sepia tonality and no stated major defects; good. An early Zangaki view of Giza offers strong documentary value for collections focused on nineteenth-century photography Egyptology travel culture the history of tourism and the visual construction of the ancient world in the modern colonial period. unknown
