Opening: $90 Hammer Price: $310 SOLD Skylight Gallery 27 October 2008

CDV-format albumen print of three Arabs in different positions of Moslem prayer, by Hippolyte Delié, circa 1865. Imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. Caire (Egypte) / succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de L'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3, Paris."   ( Inventory# ib930.06 )

These three authentic-looking middle-easterners appear to be demonstrating three positions adopted in Islamic prayer.

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