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Felix Bonfils

Rue du Caire—Quartier Toulon 71, ca. 1870s

Description

Maker

Title

Rue du Caire—Quartier Toulon 71

Year

ca. 1870s

Medium

Albumen print from glass negative

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in negative LR:Bonfils

Type

Credit

Transfer from the RISD Library

Object Number

84.054.40

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Early Exposures

March 13 - July 19, 2015

Photographs bearing the name Félix Bonfils may have been taken by Bonfils or any number of staff photographers from the studio he founded in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1867. The Bonfils studio created albums of views, architecture, people, and works of art for an audience of travelers who journeyed to the Holy Land and other locales around the eastern Mediterranean. Such compendiums were perfect souvenirs.

Today, Bonfils’s vast number of photographs of archaeological ruins and cities—such as this image of a street in the Toulon (or French) quarter of Cairo—are important sources of cultural and social history.

Use

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