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2. 1781.b.6/1
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/1
- Title:
- 'Die Moschee und der nordwestliche Theil der Stadt'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter This panoramic view over Mecca showing most of the Masjid al-Haram and the northwest portion of the city is likely a print of a drawing after a photograph or series of photographs of the same view by the Mekkan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. Numbers ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph
3. 1781.b.6/2
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/2
- Title:
- 'Die Moschee'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This south-southwest view inside the Masjid al-Haram of the Caaba and surrounding structures is a print of a drawing after a photograph of the same view by the Meccan photographer, and doctor, al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār. This photograph, in the collection of the Universitei...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print (possibly lithographic) of a drawing after a photograph
4. 1781.b.6/5
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/5
- Title:
- 'Othman Pascha mit dem egyptischen Maẖmal'.
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the arrival at Mecca of the Egyptian ‘mahmal’ – an embroidered silk-covered structure mounted on a camel – followed by a caravan of pilgrims. Originally designed to contain the Egyptian-made kiswa, the cloth that covers the Caaba, this mahmal would...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print of a drawing
5. 1781.b.6/6
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/6
- Title:
- 'Die von Othman Pascha erbaute Hauptwache'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the main guardhouse or police station in Mecca, described as being newly built by Othman Pascha. The two-storey building features the Ottoman star and crescent symbols on the cornice and what appears to be a royal toughra at the centre of the pedim...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print of a drawing
6. 1781.b.6/32
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/32
- Title:
- 'Ein Stück der Kiswah (der brokanten Bekleidung der Ka’bah)'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This dark-coloured print reproduces a section of the patterns inscribed on the kiswa, the black brocade cloth that covers the Caaba. Lighter lined areas delineated the decorative script and surrounding zigzag patterns. Within the zigzagged middle section of the piece the ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print
7. 1781.b.6/33
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/33
- Title:
- 'Negersklaven mit dem Ṯúmburah-orchester'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This two-colour printed drawing shows a troupe of twelve seated and standing men, several holding musical instruments. They are described as ‘negro slaves’ and are part of the ‘tumburah orchestra’. The word ‘tumburah’ (also: Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambura or Tanboor) refers to...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 print
8. 1781.b.6/72
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/72
- Title:
- 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 lithographic print
9. 1781.b.6/73
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/73
- Title:
- 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 lithographic print
10. 1781.b.6/74
- Reference (shelfmark):
- 1781.b.6/74
- Title:
- 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
- Scope & Content:
- Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- German
- Date Range:
- 1888
- Extent:
-
1 lithographic print