Opening: $40 Hammer Price: $40 SOLD Skylight Gallery 27 October 2008

CDV-format albumen print of Cairo mosque by Ermé Desiré, circa 1865. Imprinted front "E. Désiré Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Parisienne / E. Désiré / Photographe de S. A. le roi d'Egypte & des Princes / Caire (Egypte)." Inscribed on reverse in pencil "Mosque Kankab".   ( Inventory# ib930.14 )

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