J8.9 Egypt

J8.9 Egypt

Photographs and Portraits

An album of prints titled 'Egypt' belonging to WHI Bleek. Prints following the heading 'Egypt' are by the French photographer Hippolyte Arnoux depicting monuments of ancient Egypt, people, and landscapes. Prints following the title 'Palestine' and 'Syria' are by Italian photographer Tancrède Dumas and depict buildings, people, and landscapes. Most of the prints have titles and the photographers names inscribed in the negative and are pasted into the album. Some prints have titles handwritten in the album below.

See 'Hieroglyphic words and signs' (https://digitalbleeklloyd.uct.ac.za/metadata/other/notes/whi-bleek/21/index.html ). Some pages are blank and were not scanned.