Album du Musée de Boulaq comprenant quarante planches photographiées par MM. Délié et Béchard avec un texte explicatif rédigé par Auguste Mariette-Bey. Photographer(s): Délié et Béchard
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Imprint: Le Caire. Mourès et Cie, Imprimeurs-Éditeurs. 1871. Quarter-leather and red buckram folio volume measuring 500 x 370 mm, with title stamped in gilt on upper board, containing 42 prints (numbered 1-40, but with two prints at plates 19 and 33), mounted one to a page (verso only) on card...
[Exterior view of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the museum building, photographed in autumn, with the Nile in the left background. On the lawn in the left foreground can be seen a table on which are arranged museum objects for photography.
[Central gallery of the Bulaq Museum, Cairo.] Photographer: Délié et Béchard
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Genre: Architectural Photography View in the central gallery of the Bulaq Museum, showing cases containing funerary objects. On the left is statue seen in detail in prints 18-19.