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Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
The Jaffa Gate is an ancient passage in the fortifications of the Old City of Jerusalem.
This is the only gate opening onto the western side of the old city, and it was from here that the roads to Jaffa and Hebron began.
A copy of this print is part of the collection of the New York Public Library.
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) Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, signed c.1870
Vintage albumen print photograph signed Bonfils
Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
The Jaffa Gate is an ancient passage in the fortifications of the Old City of Jerusalem.
This is the only gate opening onto the western side of the old city, and it was from here that the roads to Jaffa and Hebron began.
A copy of this print is part of the collection of the New York Public Library.
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.