View of Grand Cairo

by Henry Salt

$3,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

In this large panoramic view, Salt demonstrates the appropriateness of the sobriquet, City of a Thousand Minarets . In the foreground is the great Sultan Hussan Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Cairo. As we look through the streets towards the distant Nile, we see many neighborhood mosques and holy places. Henry Salt, artist, traveller, diplomat and collector of antiquities, was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 14 June 1780. He was destined to be a portrait-painter, and on

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