Signed: Ernest R. Ashton Broadlands. (lower left corner)
This photo reproduced as a photogravure in: Quatrieme Année Salon de Photographie" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1897) : Planche II & as a photogravure titled: "Evening near the Pyramids" in: Camera Notes: October, 1898.
Ashton's Linked Ring pseudonym was the "Orientalist" because he traveled and photographed extensively in the Middle East and India.