Opening: $180 Hammer Price: $210 SOLD Skylight Gallery 39 November 2014

Vintage albumen print showing Egyptian whirling Dervishes, circa 1875 by Pascal Sebah. Mounted on a portion of period album page slightly larger than print, inscribed in period pen on mount "Dervishes". A close variant of this image in cabinet-card size is known with Sebah signature in the negative and title "173.Groupe de Derviches tourneurs" (from an album dating 1873). Print size 7.75 x 10 inches (20x25 cm).   ( Inventory# id914a )

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