Pascal Sebah
1860-1865
[Camels and attendants in the courtyard of a photographic studio in Cairo]

Albumen print
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Andrew Smith Auction Rooms, Winchester, 16 May 2017, Lot: 831
 
Alan Griffiths (16 May 2017)
Based on other examples (George Eastman Museum, 2001.1530.0056, LL/75414) and an example sold by Bernard J. Shapero Books (LL/30094) the architectural props are those of Pascal Sebah. With this evidence this photograph has been attributed to Pascal Sebah.
 
Auction lot details
A good Victorian travel photograph album of the East and Europe, compiled by Jane Stewart (nee McDouell of Logan) circa 1860-65, albumen and other type images by various hands including Pascal Sebah (1823-1886) and Antonio Beato (1832-1906) titles include - Interior of an Arab Court, Street in Cairo, Shepperds Hotel, Camels in Sebah's Yard, The Shoorla Road, portrait of a Water Carrier, The Nile, The Great Pyramid, Pyramid of Cheops, Camels in the Desert, The Luxor Hotel, Pigeon Houses, Wall of Rameseum, The First Cataract, Temple of Isis, Tomb of David, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Beyrout, The Bosphorous, The Seraglio Point, Stamboul and views of Prague, Dresden, Nuremburg, Cologne etc, approx 100 images, each hand titled beneath, sizes vary but mostly 26.5 x 35 cm and 20 x 20.5 cm, some signed within the plate, others similarly numbered, within a black hard-bound album bearing gilt monogram 'JS' Prov; Jane Stewart, daughter of Col.McDouell of Logan, married 1860 the distinguished officer Lt.Col. Patrick Stewart, Bengal Engineers (died 1865), thence by descent via the McDouell / Buchan-Hepburn family.
 
LL/76381