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Felix Bonfils

Street in the Toulon Quarter, Cairo (Rue du Caire-Quartier Toulon)

Maker

Felix Bonfils (French, 1831-1885)

Title

Street in the Toulon Quarter, Cairo (Rue du Caire-Quartier Toulon)

Year

ca. 1870s

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

albumen

Supports

Dimensions

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

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in negative LR:Bonfils

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Transfer from the RISD Library

Object Number

84.054.40

Type

Exhibition History

Early Exposures
19th-Century Photography from the Collection
Mar 13, 2015 – Jul 19, 2015

Label copy

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.

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Felix Bonfils (French, 1831-1885)
Street in the Toulon Quarter, Cairo (Rue du Caire-Quartier Toulon), ca. 1870s
Albumen print from glass negative
27.9 x 21.6 cm (11 x 8 1/2 inches)
Transfer from the RISD Library 84.054.40

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