ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH OBELISQUE D'HELIOPOLIS

Code: M3399

Cartographer: ANON

Date: 1875

Size: 26*21 cms

Rare Beato Albumen photograph of the Obelisk at Heliopolis

Mounted on card as per usual ..with title and signed by Sebah in photo.

Very good condition

Pascal Sébah (1823–1886) was a photographer in Constantinople (now Istanbul). He was born in Constantinople, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire, to a Syrian Catholic father and an Armenian mother. In 1857 he opened his first photography studio in Constantinople[1] at 439 Grande Rue de Pera in the center of the city.[2] By 1873 he was successful enough to open another studio in Cairo

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