2-701-185 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Tekih Cheik Hacen Sadaka, or the Funerary Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (chromolithograph). Fragments of decoration of the vast mosques central dome; particular details of the stone latice work screens, or jali/jaali; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; illustrations of Islamic art, architecture, woodwork, tiling, interiors, furnitute etc.; Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) was a French archeologist, Egyptologist, architect and writer of the nineteenth century.