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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Pèlerins devant la Kaaba, La Mecque [Saudi Arabia]
1885 (ca)
Albumen print
19 x 24.3 cm
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 428
LL/57242
Signed at the bottom by the photographer in the negative: “Futugrafiyyat al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, tabib Makka’ (Photography by the Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar, physician of Mecca) and titled at the top in Arabic in the negative (Prayer Around the Kaaba).
William Facey, Saudi Arabia by the first photographers, Stacey International, London, 1996, p. 28.
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