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Album souvenir d'Alexandrie: Ruines, 1882 |
| Reference |
GBR/0115/Y3041A |
| Creator |
Fiorillo, L, fl 1870-1889, photographer |
| Covering Dates |
1882 |
| Extent and Medium |
50 images in 1 album; The volume is buckled and fragile |
| Repository |
Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library |
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| Content and context |
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L. Fiorillo was a commercial photographer. In the 1870s he had a studio in Place Mehemet Ali, Alexandria. His 'cartes de visite' are praised in Murray, J. (1875), A handbook for travellers in Egypt, London: J. Murray. He contributed prints to Bonfils, F. (1894), Nazareth et ses environs, St Petersburg.
An album of albumen prints. This collection contains a series of views of destruction caused by the bombardment of the city on 11 July 1882 when the English fleet attempted to destroy Arabi Pasha's nationalist forces. The photographs are captioned in French on the photographs themselves.
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Access and Use
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Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Album souvenir d'Alexandrie: Ruines, 1882, Y3041A |
| Further information |
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Indexed
This collection level description was entered by KS using information from the original typescript catalogue.
This collection is available on microfiche: Africa, fiche numbers 13-14.
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Egypt |
| Fiorillo, L (fl 1870-1889) photographer |
| RCS/Y3041A contains: |
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1
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Le Bombardement d'Alexandrie du 11 Juillet 1882. 264 x 189 mm. A photograph of a painting of the bombardment from the sea, with British ships in the foreground and the smoking town beyond.
Poor condition, overall fading and yellowing.. |
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2
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Le batteries du Mex démantalées. 263 x 179 mm. A view of the shattered battlements of Fort Mex showing the two ten-inch guns which the bombardment had failed to silence. The gun in the foreground (with 'Mister Lolo' painted on its mounting) has had its muzzle burst by the landing party from 'Invincible' led by Lieutenant Bradford while the further gun seems still to be intact: this would suggest that Fiorillo was present during the raid on the guns, since Archer states that both guns were dealt with in this way (Archer 1886, p. 275).
Fair condition, some fading in from edges.. |
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3
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La maison d'Araby Pacha à l'Arsenal. 262 x 198 mm. A view looking along the street towards Arabi Pasha's house, in front of which stands a contingent of marines posing for the photograph. Probably taken on July 14 when a party of marines landed to occupy the Ras-el-Teen Palace (situated on the peninsula to the west of the Arsenal).
Fair condition, slight fading in from edges.. |
July 14 1882 |
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4
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La mosquée du Chiek Migaud ou Arabi fit sa dernière priere. 261 x 200 mm. A view showing the apparently undamaged mosque and minaret with Arabi Pasha's house to the left.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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5
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La brêche dans la mosque du Chiek Migaud. 264 x 198 mm. A view showing a large hole in the wall of the mosque, presumably the effect of a single unexploded shell.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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6
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Les ruines du Phare. 262 x 197 mm. A view showing a section of the ruined battlements at Fort Pharos, with mortars standing among the rubble and the base of the lighthouse visible in the background.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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7
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Les batteries de Ras-el-Tin démantelées. 264 x 197 mm. A view looking seawards over the wrecked battlements with overturned cannons, shells and Egyptian corpses lying in the foreground.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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8
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Les batteries de Ras-el-Tin démantelées. 261 x 197 mm. A view looking over the battlements towards the Inner Harbour with cannon in the foreground and steam and sailing ships at anchor in the Harbour beyond.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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9
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Le Fort Pharos (ruines). 261 x 199 mm. A view showing the broken and crumbling walls of Fort Pharos.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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10
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Les batteries du Fort Pharos démantelées. 262 x 199 mm. A view looking down on the battlements of Fort Pharos with cannons and mortars in the foreground. Fort Ada, to the west, can be seen in the distance.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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11
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Les batteries du Fort Pharos démantelées. 263 x 197 mm. A view showing the battlements of Fort Pharos. In the background can be seen the breakwater connecting Fort Pharos with the mainland, with part of the town and New Port beyond.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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12
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Les batteries du Fort Ada démantelées. 262 x 196 mm. A close-up of overturned cannons and mortars lying among the rubble of Fort Ada.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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13
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Ruine de l'Okelle Francaise (rue Franque). 263 x 198 mm. A view looking along a paved street with several of the houses reduced to rubble. Exact location unidentified, but probably somewhere in the area of the French Consulate between the New Port and the Great Square. Okelle was a term used in Alexandria to define a large block of houses.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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14
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La Place des Consuls avant l'incendie. 262 x 198 mm. A view looking north-west along the central square of Alexandria, also variously known as Place Nehemet Ali and the Great Square. In the foreground stand a pool and fountain with two avenues of trees leading towards the equestrian statue of Mohammed Ali visible in the background, with the Palais de Justice beyond.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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15
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La Place des Consuls après l'incendie. 263 x 197 mm. A view taken from the Palais de Justice looking along the Great Square in a south-easterly direction showing the destruction wrought by the fires started in the European quarter by Arabi's retreating army and other looters. In the foreground there is fire fighting equipment and a few marines: 'They [a landing party of 200 men under Major Phillips] then entered what had been the great square; the equestrian statue of Mohammed Ali still stood in the centre, and behind it rose the Palais de Justice. The fountains still played in the centre of the garden. Along both sides and one end of the square the ruin was complete. Volumes of smoke still rose from behind the facades of the houses, bleached white by the intense heat to which they had been exposed; there were great gaps in the line of skeleton walls, where the whole face of the houses had fallen across the road. A horrible smell of burning flesh from time to time assailed the nostrils of the party, and told of bodies of murdered Europeans upon whom the heated walls had fallen'. (Archer 1886, pp 285-6).
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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16
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La Place des Consults dans l'état actuel. 261 x 198 mm. A view looking along the street which runs alongside the Great Square with small wooden stalls lining the square and figures standing on the roadway and pavement watching the photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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17
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La Place des Consuls côté gauche (ruines). 256 x 199 mm. A view looking along the street beside the Great Square showing the ruins of the houses of European residents.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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18
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La Place de Consuls côté droit (ruines). 264 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruined houses in the street running along the south side of the Great Square with the archway to the Passage Napier in the left foreground.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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19
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Le Consulat de France (ruines). 261 x 197 mm. A view from the Great Square looking towards the ruins of the French Consulate which lies on its northern side.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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20
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Le Consulat de France (ruines). 262 x 198 mm. A view of the ruins of the French Consulate with two men standing beside the rubble in the foreground.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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21
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L'Okelle neuve (ruines). 262 x 198 mm. A view looking along a street of ruined houses in L'Okelle neuve which lies between the Grand Square and the New Port waterfront.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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22
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Le palais de M. le Comte Zizinia (ruines). 262 x 196 mm. A view from the road looking towards the decorated arches and columns of the palace. Exact location unknown, but possibly at the western end of the Boulevard Ismail near L'Okelle Sciorbagi.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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23
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L'Okelle Sciorbagi (ruines). 262 x 198 mm. A view looking across a paved roadway towards the ruins of a block of houses. Exact location unidentified but the archway at the right of the print probably belongs to the Zizinia Palace.
Good condition.. |
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24
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Les maisons Nubar Pacha et Chiek Ibraim (ruines). 262 x 199 mm. A view looking towards the gutted house of Nubar Pasha on the right with the ruins of the mosque of Sheik Ibrahaïm at the left (with the minaret still standing). A view taken from the Place de la musque du Cheik Ibraïm, first west of the Great Square.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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25
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L'Hotel d'Europe (ruines). 261 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruins of the hotel which stood at the western end of the Great Square.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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26
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La Cour Martiale au Palais de Justice. 263 x 200 mm. A view showing a court-martial being held on the pavement outside the Palais de Justice. A group of Arabs stands under armed guard before two wooden tables at which are seated Naval Officers (unidentified). The work of suppressing looters was commenced on July 15: Archer states that looters were to be flogged and incendaries caught in the act were to be shot.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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27
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La rue de la Bourse (sauvée). 262 x 199 mm. A view looking along the undamaged Rue de la Bourse with pedestrians and ponytraps on the roadway. The street runs north-east from the Great Square to the New Port.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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28
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L'Okelle de Mont-Sinaï (ruines). 262 x 197 mm. A view looking along a street towards the ruined block of buildings. Exact location unknown.
Fair condition, some fading.. |
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29
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Le Consulat Anglais (ruines). 261 x 198 mm. A view looking west along the Rue de l'Obelisque towards the ruins of the English Consulate, with figures standing among the rubble on the roadway.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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30
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Le Mont-de-Piere, Maison Sursok (ruines). 263 x 197 mm. A view looking along a street (exact location unknown) towards the harbour, with largely intact residential houses lining the road. Maison Sursok is in the foreground, a fire-gutted shell outside of which lies mounds of rubble and debris.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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31
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La maison Veuve Adib (ruines). 263 x 198 mm. A view looking along a street towards the harbour, with the ruined house of Widow Adib in the right foreground.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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32
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L'Agence Rubattino (ruines). 263 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruined premises of the Rubattino Agency, an Italian mail steamer company with headquarters in Genoa. Exact location unknown, possibly Rue Cherif Pocha.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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33
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La Rue de la Poste Italienne (ruines). 263 x 198 mm. A view looking along the paved street lined with gutted houses and debris and with a few bystanders posing for the photographer. The offices of the Credit Lyonnais are on the left foreground.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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34
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La Rue de la Poste Italienne (ruines). 262 x 199 mm. A view showing another section of the street, with great destruction apparent.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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La Rue de la Poste Italienne (ruines). 252 x 200 mm. Another view of gutted houses and debris in the Rue de la Poste Italienne.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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La Rue Chérif Pacha (ruines). 263 x 199 mm. A view showing gutted houses and debris in the Rue Cherif Pacha with a blurred crowd of people inspecting the ruins at the far end of the road. The street runs south east from the Great Square to the Boulevard Ismail.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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37
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La Rue Chérif Pacha (ruines). 262 x 200 mm. A view of ruins in the Rue Cherif Pacha with two Egyptians wearing fezzes in the foreground.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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La Rue Sésostris (ruines). 262 x 197 mm. A view showing gutted houses and rubble in Rue Sesostris, which runs from the Boulevard Ismail (also known as Rue de la Porte de Rosette) to Rue de l'eglise Copte.
Good condition.. |
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La Rue Sésostris (ruines). 263 x 199 mm. A view showing gutted houses and rubble in Rue Sesostris with two figures posing in the foreground for the photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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La maison S. Zogheb (ruines). 260 x 198 mm. A view showing the rubble-filled ruins of the house of S. Zogheb. Exact location unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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La maison de M. le Cte Zogheb (ruines). 262 x 199 mm. A view showing the still-standing façade with firegutted interior of Count Zogheb's house (not the same building as seen in Y3041A/40). Exact location unknown.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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42
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La Rue Mosquée Attarin (ruines). 264 x 197 mm. A view looking along this rubble strewn street which runs parallel to the Great Square.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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La Place de l'Eglise (ruines). 262 x 197 mm. A view showing ruined buildings and rubble in the Place de l'Eglise. Exact location unknown, but possibly in front of the great Church on the south side of the rue Mosquée Attarin.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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La Rue Mosquée Attarin, coin des Cent Milles Articles (ruines). 263 x 198 mm. A view showing the ruins of small shops on La Rue Mosquée Attarin. Exact location of the Cent Milles Articles unknown, but presumably a bazaar or market area of small businesses.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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[La] Rue Mosquée Attarin, coin de la Rue des Soeurs (ruines). 259 x 196 mm. A view showing ruined buildings in the Rue Mosquée Attarin. The Rue des Soeurs runs south from the great Square.
Fair condition, slight overall fading.. |
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Le College des Lazaristes (ruines). 262 x 197 mm. A view showing the fire-gutted building of the Lazarist College. The College and Church face onto the Rues des Soeurs.
Good condition, apart from slight fading in from edges.. |
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47
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L'Eglise des Lazaristes (ruines). 261 x 198 mm. A view looking along the gutted interior of the church of the Lazarists.
Fair condition, some fading.. |
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48
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Le nouveau Bazar (ruines). 262 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruins of the New Bazaar. Exact location unknown.
Fair condition, slight fading some yellowing.. |
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49
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La Place de l'Encan (ruines). 263 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruins of the Place de l'Encan (Auction Square) with two figures sitting among the rubble in the foreground.
Fair condition, overall fading.. |
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Le Boulevard de Ramleh (ruines). 263 x 197 mm. A view looking over ruined houses and rooftops in the Boulevard de Ramleh. Exact location unknown.
Poor condition, overall fading.. |
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