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Zangaki a. Gabriel LékégianCollection of 42 original photographs. Circa 1890. Vintages, albumen. Each measuring approx. 29 x 23 cm. Each mounted on cardboard backing. Folio. HLdr. d. Zt. with colored paper endpapers and three. Gilt edges (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Egypt Zangaki a. Gabriel Lékégian Collection of 42 original photographs. Circa 1890. vintages, albumen. Each measuring approx. 29 x 23 cm. Each mounted on cardboard. Folio. HLdr. d. Zt. with colored paper endpapers and three. Gilt edges (somewhat rubbed and bumped). Mostly signed in the plate and titled in French, some with numbering. A photograph by Arnoux. - Gabriel Lékégian (1853 - around 1920) was an Armenian painter and photographer who worked in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. The Adelphoi Zangaki (Zangaki brothers) were two brothers of Greek origin who worked as photographers in Ottoman Egypt from the 1860s to the 1890s. Both Lékégian and the Zangaki brothers documented Ottoman Egypt at the turn of the 20th century with their numerous photographs. - Shows numerous ethnographic images, including individual and group portraits, street vendors, veiled women, musicians, farmers at harvest. Also straw transportation on the Nile, a shadoof, cafés, etc. Famous monuments and places in and around Cairo such as the Muhammad Ali Mosque, Sultan Kait-Bay Mosque, ar-Rifa'i Mosque, Caliph Tombs, Qasr El Nil Street, Bab El-Wazir Street, Qani Bey as-Saifi Mosque of Emir Akhor, École de la Validé, banks of the Nile, bridges, etc. - A few prints with small marginal tears or holes. Some with slight signs of age. Album pages somewhat bent, one almost detached. Backing boards occasionally with slight losses and somewhat stained. Overall well preserved. Egypt - Collection of 42 original photographs. Vintages, albumen prints. Each mounted on cardboard. Folio. Cont. half leather with colored paper endpapers and gilt edges (slightly rubbed and bumped). - Mostly signed in the plate and titled in French, some with numbering. One photograph by Arnoux. - Gabriel Lékégian (1853 - around 1920) was an Armenian painter and photographer who worked in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. The Adelphoi Zangaki (Zangaki brothers) were two brothers of Greek origin who worked as photographers in Ottoman Egypt from the 1860s to the 1890s. Both Lékégian and the Zangaki brothers documented Ottoman Egypt at the turn of the 20th century with their numerous photographs. - Shows various ethnographic images, including individual and group portraits, street vendors, veiled women, musicians, farmers at harvest. Also straw transport on the Nile, a shadoof, cafés, etc. Famous monuments and places in and around Cairo such as the Muhammad Ali Mosque, Sultan Kait-Bay Mosque, ar-Rifa'i Mosque, Caliph Tombs, Qasr El Nil Street, Bab El-Wazir Street, Qani Bey as-Saifi Mosque of Emir Akhor, École de la Validé, banks of the Nile, bridges etc. - A few prints with small marginal tears or losses. Some with slight signs of age. Album pages somewhat bent, one almost detached. Cardboard backings occasionally with slight marginal defects and somewhat stained. Overall well preserved.
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Zangaki a. Gabriel LékégianCollection of 42 original photogr
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