Album of views in India and the Middle East. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Original album binding has been removed although the pages, measuring 264 x 390 mm, are still intact at the spine. The prints are mounted with handwritten captions. The photographs follow the sea route to India from Gibraltar to Bombay via Malta, Port Said, Suez and Aden. After Bombay the photog...
Lieut-Colonel Rawdon Edward Dennys Reilly (28th Pioneers) Collection: Album of views in India, England and the Middle East. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Blue half-leather album, 278x380mm, containing mounted prints with handwritten captions. A modern note on the front fixed endpaper reads: 'Album originally the property of Lt Colonel Rawdon Edward Dennys Reilly, 28th Bombay Pioneers'. Photographs include topographical and architectural views in ...
Inscription: Signed and inscribed in the negative, 'Rue de Commerce à Port Said.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the waterfront looking along a street, with the Hotel des Pays Bas and the shipchandlery of James Slavick in the right foreground.
Egyptian woman and boy. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Inscription: Signed ' H. Arnoux' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait of a veiled woman, carrying a basket of bananas on her head, with a young boy standing beside her.
Egyptian fruit sellers. Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte
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Inscription: Numbered and signed 'H. Arnoux' in the negative. Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio group, posed against a painted backdrop, of three veiled women buying fruit from a trader.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio group, posed against a painted backdrop, of a man (smoking a hookah) seated with three veiled women and two children. Photograph unsigned, but probably by Arnoux.