Le Kaire - tombeaux de sultans Mamelouks / Félix Teynard. – Historic Reproduction
![Le Kaire - tombeaux de sultans Mamelouks / Félix Teynard., Paris ; Londres ; Berlin ; New York : Publie par Goupil et Cie. éditeurs, [1858] (Paris : Imp. phot. de H. de Fonteny et Cie., 1851). — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2f1e3447253b-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Le Kaire - tombeaux de sultans Mamelouks / Félix Teynard.
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This view shows the tombs of the Mamluk sultans in Cairo, the mausoleum complexes that the Mamluk rulers, who governed Egypt from 1250 to 1517, built for themselves. Félix Teynard made it as a salted paper print in 1851, and it was later issued as plate 6 in *Égypte et Nubie*, published by Goupil in 1858. Because the image records the stone domes and façades in fine detail, it became one of the period's key documents of Islamic architecture in Egypt, made when few Europeans had seen these monuments firsthand.
| Created / published | Paris ; Londres ; Berlin ; New York : Publie par Goupil et Cie. éditeurs, [1858] (Paris : Imp. phot. de H. de Fonteny et Cie., 1851). |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 24.4 x 31 cm. (photo) |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Salted paper prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Égypte et Nubie : sites et monuments les plus intéressants pour l'étude de l'art et de l'histoire / Félix Teynard. Paris : Goupil et Cie, [1858], pl. 6. Surrogate available as: Félix Teynard: calotypes of Egypt : A catalogue raisonné ; Essays by Kathleen Stewart Howe. New York : Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., 1992. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 63 |
| Subjects | Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Egypt--Cairo--1850-1860. Mamelukes--Structures--Egypt--Cairo--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,478 × 1,197 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217872 |
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