2-701-187 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Cairo: Interior of the domestic house of Sidi Youssef Adami: a woman standing in a room of rich mosaic and marble decoration; from L'Art Arabe d'apres les Monuments de Kaire; pub. 1877 (chromolithograph). Intimiate interior shows women holding a baby surronded by domestic objects, such as vases, a shisha pipe, and a cot; 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.