EGYPT - GLASS PLATES - FÉLIX BONFILS 1831-1885 - ADOLPHE BRA - Lot 165

EGYPT - GLASS PLATES - FÉLIX BONFILS 1831-1885 - ADOLPHE BRAUN & CIE - FÉLIX FESCOURT 1817-1881 Set of glass plates depicting monuments and scenes of life, Egypt, ca.1910. Photographs. 130 positive glass plates with labels captioned in ink on the images, some signed Bonfils in the negative, others with labels of the photographers Braun, Fescourt, Lemoyne or Radiguet & Massiot and 28 with attached labels mentioning "Collection Lemoyne" on the mount. 12 undescribed damaged plates. Thebes: excavations, Ramesseum: group of young girls, colossi of Memnon, temple of Amun, children in front of the pylon, alley of sphinxes; Temple of Medinet-Habou; Karnak: children in front of Ptolemy's gate, visitors in the ruins, pronaos, avenue of rams, temple of Luxor: European travelers in costume observing columns, Muslim festival, guides, water carriers, young naked mason boy; Cairo: market, Ramanhour park, tombs of the caliphs, Saqqarah: colossus of Ramses II, pyramid of Khéphren, pyramid of Khéops and the Sphinx, temple of Abydos, lunch in the temple of the Sphinx, obelisk of Héliopolis, interior of the tomb of Sultan Hassan, minbâr of the Kaïd Bey mosque; Philaé : temple of Isis, camp, Arab praying, step pyramid of Djoser, Nile dam at Aswan, Kom-Ombo, Elephantine Island, young Egyptians in a palm grove, temple of Horus at Edfou, Aswan: market, hotel, native types, Becharin dance and fight, Hathor temple in Dendera, aniers waiting for tourists, liner at the entrance to the Suez Canal, Egyptian boy type, Bedouin, Nubian type. Images: approx. 7.5 x 8.5 cm; plates: approx. 8.5 x 9.7 cm While some of these plates were purchased, a large proportion are personal shots, often animated, that capture the growing intensity of tourism at the turn of the century, particularly in the emblematic monuments of the North.