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The Haj
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1.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
View of the Mosque at Mecca: the walk around the Ka' ba

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2137-1924, Image reference 2011FB3691
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46205
2.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
View of the Mosque at Mecca: the prayer around the Ka'ba

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2136-1924
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46206
3.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
Mecca, tombs of the relatives of Muhammed

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2132-1924
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46207
4.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
The Mosque: the ceremonies and the Ka'ba

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2135-1924
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46208
5.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
Encampment of pilgrims during the festival of the sacrifice at Mina

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2130-1924
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46209
6.Muhammad Sadiq
1881
View of Medina with the place for the encampment of pilgrims

Albumen print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Presented by Lady Palmer, Museum number: PH.2131-1924
 
Included in the exhibition "The Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam" (The British Museum, 26 Jan 2012-15 April 2012)
 
LL/46210
7.Muhammad Sadiq
1880-1881
Mecca

Albumen prints, two
6.5 x 15.1 ins (16.4 x 38.4 cm)
 
Phillips de Pury - New York
25 April 2003, Lot 78
 
LL/42074
8.Muhammad Sadiq
1880-1881
Mecca [Five views]

Albumen prints
Christie's - London
Sale 7571, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 8 April 2008, Lot 156
 
LL/42075
9.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1885
Pèlerinage à La Mecque. La Kaaba [Saudi Arabia]

Albumen print
18.5 x 25 cm
 
Gros & Delettrez
Books, Manuscripts - Orientalist Photographs, 19 June 2012, Lot: 220
 
LL/48524
10.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1885 (ca)
Pèlerinage à La Mecque, La Kaaba [Saudi Arabia]

Albumen print
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 427
 
LL/57241
11.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1885
Pèlerinage à La Mecque. La Kaaba

Albumen print
19 x 24.5 cm
 
Gros & Delettrez
Books, Manuscripts - Orientalist Photographs, 19 June 2012, Lot: 221
 
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.
 
LL/48528
12.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1885 (ca)
Pèlerins devant la Kaaba, La Mecque [Saudi Arabia]

Albumen print
19 x 24.3 cm
 
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 428
 
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.
 
LL/57242
13.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1888, August
[Oostelijk deel van de vallei van Mina tijdens de jaarlijkse hadj]

Photograph
18.5 x 24 cm (7 5/16 x 9 7/16 ins)
 
Tropenmuseum
Object number: 60025232
 
LL/48527
14.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1884, September-December
Groepsportret van hadji's (hajs) uit Sambas in het Nederlandse Consulaat in Jeddah, met achter hen de wakil, de gevolmachtigde van de sjeik

Photograph
18.7 x 24.1 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 ins)
 
Tropenmuseum
Object number: 60057092
 
LL/48526
15.Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
1885 (ca)
Vue sur le Haram sacré et sur la partie nord de La Mecque [Saudi Arabia]

Albumen print
Gros & Delettrez
18 Dec 2014, Lot: 427
 
LL/57240
16.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Tents of the Turks
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(1)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58605
17.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Sanctuary of Medina the Radiant
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(2)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58606
18.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the City of Mecca the Great
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(3)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58607
19.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Sanctuary of Medina the Radiant
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(4)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58608
20.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Sanctuary of Mecca the Great
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(5)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58609
21.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of Mount 'Arafat'
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(6)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58610
22.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the City of Medina the Radiant
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(7)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58611
23.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Bab 'Anbari'
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(8)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58612
24.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Mosque of Khaif and Mina
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(9)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58613
25.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Mausoleum of Our Lord Amir Hamza, May God Be Pleased upon Him
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(10)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58614
26.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Paradise of al-Ma'ala
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(11)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58615
27.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Paradise Garden of al-Baqi
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(12)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58616
28.H.A. Mirza
1907 (ca)
Picture of the Mosque of Quba
[Views of Mecca and Medina]

Photograph, on blue card mount
British Library
India Office Records and Private Papers, Album, Photo 174/(13)
 
Published by H.A. Mirza & Sons, Photographers.
 
LL/58617
29.Chusseau-Flaviens
1900-1919 (ca)
Egypte retour de la Mecque

Negative, gelatin on glass
9 x 12 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Record Id: 1975:0111:4841
 
LL/35703
30.Unidentified photographer
1916-1917
The Egyptian Mahmal on the train bound for Mecca

Photograph
Sotheby's - London
Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History, 30 April 2015, Lot: 163
 
LL/58826
31.Unidentified photographer
1893, 30 December (published)
La Cérémonie du Grand Calat a la Mecque
[Paris-Photographe, III Ano, No.12]

Heliogravure
Private collection of Manuel Magalhaes
LL/45697
   
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