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Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
Ablution fountain in the courtyard of the Great Mosque in Damascus, Syria.
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus consists of two distinct parts: a prayer hall and a courtyard enclosed by a portico. At its center, this courtyard houses a fountain used for ritual ablutions. The eastern shrine once held the mosque's treasury.
Felix Bonfils was a French photographer (1831 - 1885). He learned photography from Niepce de Saint-Victor, nephew of Nicéphore Niepce.
He opened his photographic studio in 1867 in Beirut, Lebanon, where he specialized in the architecture and landscapes of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece.
Felix BONFILS (1831-1885) Fountain of Ablutions, Damascus, signed c.1870
Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
The Bazaar of Jaffa, Palestine
The port of Jaffa has been, since antiquity, one of the stops on the trade route between the Mediterranean basin and East Asia.
At the end of the 19th century, Jaffa was the largest Arab settlement in Palestine.
Felix Bonfils was a French photographer (1831 - 1885). He learned photography from Niepce de Saint-Victor, nephew of Nicéphore Niepce.
He opened his photographic studio in 1867 in Beirut, Lebanon, where he specialized in the architecture and landscapes of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece.