Item #4127 1875 Birds-Eye-View Photograph of Port Said & Suez Canal from Port Said Lighthouse. Comianos, Sarolidis, Photographers.
1875 Birds-Eye-View Photograph of Port Said & Suez Canal from Port Said Lighthouse
1875 Birds-Eye-View Photograph of Port Said & Suez Canal from Port Said Lighthouse

1875 Birds-Eye-View Photograph of Port Said & Suez Canal from Port Said Lighthouse

Port Said: Comianos et Sarolidis, 1875. Unmounted Photograph. Photo shows the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) arriving at Port Said while en route to India on his grand tour in 1875-1876 to the eastern reaches of the British Empire. An unmounted albumen and silver salts print on paper, measuring 8.75 x 11 inches wide with nice wide borders, print is titled in negative "Arrivée du Prince de Galles à Port-Said". Photo is somewhat faded, verso with a few soil spots and stains, some edges archivally repaired and backed by barely discernible Japanese tissue. At Least Very Good. Item #4127

"Royal yacht HMS Serapis and HMS Raleigh, with another warship and steam yacht in line off the town wharf with the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII on board." The State Library of NSW who hold a carte de visite of this image.

Price: $950.00 CAD  other currencies