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Photographs / Arthur Dexter, 1830-1897, photographer. Boston Athenæum - Prints & Photographs Department (photo) UT.9 U9 Dex.a (no.2) / #2012.12 (no.3)

Contact Information Prints & Photographs Department Boston Athenæum 10 ½ Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108-3777 (617) 720-7652 Finding aid by Catharina Slautterback, May 2013 © Boston Athenæum

Table of Contents: Descriptive Summary Acquisition Information Copyright Access Restrictions Scope and Content Note Historic and Biographical Note

Descriptive Summary: A photograph album with albumen photographic prints by Arthur Dexter (1830-1897). This is one of four albums in the collection Four Nineteenth-Century Albums with Photographs by Arthur Dexter. One volume with 83 photographs pasted down on rectos of 80 leaves. Leaf size: 8¾ x 11⅜ inches.

Acquisition Information: Gift of Peter S. and Jane Dexter Coleman, July 2012.

Copyright: Permission to reproduce these photographs must be obtained in writing from the Boston Athenæum. Please visit the Boston Athenæum’s Rights and Reproductions page on its website: http://bostonathenaeum.org/node/46

Access: This album is available to researchers for consultation by appointment only. Please contact the Prints & Photographs Department at the Boston Athenæum.

Scope and Content Note: A photograph album containing 83 photographic prints by Arthur Dexter (1830-1897). 2

The photographs in this album record Dexter’s travels in Italy and Egypt from 1869 to 1876. Photographs of Italian antiquities, villas, and churches are interspersed with portraits of Dexter’s friends in Rome’s expatriate colony, including William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), Hamilton Gibbs Wilde (1827-1884), James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892), and Bessie Ward (1847-1926), later Elizabeth Ward Schönberg. The second half of the album contains photographs of ancient Egyptian ruins that Dexter, his mother, and several friends visited during a Nile River excursion in 1874-1875.

Historical and Biographical Note: Arthur Dexter was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1830, the fourth son of the influential lawyer and politician Franklin Dexter (1793-1857) and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Prescott (1799-1891). He attended Boston Latin School as a child and graduated from Harvard College in 1851. His studies continued in the architectural studio of Hector Lefuel (1810-1880) at the L’École des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1855, he was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and entered his family’s law practice at 9 Court Square in Boston. He argued cases with Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835-1915) and John Quincy Adams (1833-1894) and dabbled briefly in Republican and progressive politics. In January of 1858, he enlisted in the New England Guard before joining the National Guard where he achieved the rank of Captain. He was honorably discharged from the Guard in March of 1860. Independently wealthy, Arthur Dexter spent much of the 1860s and 1870s in Europe where he devoted himself to the study of the fine arts and belles-lettres. His profession was often cited as “art amateur” and his drawings and paintings were admired by contemporaries. He evinced an interest in photography as early as 1860 and, although it is unknown how or where he acquired his photographic skills, the Four Nineteenth-Century Albums with Photographs by Arthur Dexter attest to his accomplishments in the medium. In these albums, Dexter used his camera to record the ruins and architectural glories of Italy and Egypt as well as an occasional moonlit landscape. But he had a particular affinity for portraiture. Time and again, he documented the appearance of his friends and families, posing them in their environments or in more formal stances. His interest in portraiture as an artistic medium is evident in his photographs of local Italian models, dressed in native costumes; these were clearly intended to be the photographic equivalent of genre paintings. Dexter continued the practice of photography well into the 1890s as can be seen in his published portraits of Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-1890) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894). While in Rome and Paris, Dexter participated in the social life of the American expatriate circle and his name appears in the reminiscences of Henry James (1843-1916), Edith Wharton (1862-1937), William Wetmore Story (1819-1895), Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892), and others. His brilliance, learning, and connoisseurship were often remarked upon, and, in William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Henry James wrote 3

that Dexter was one of a “small, select company of the bachelors of Boston, a group. . . almost romantic in their rarity.” Upon his return to the United States, Dexter parlayed his knowledge of the arts into a series of articles on literary and artistic matters for various publications. Perhaps the best known of these is his chapter on “The Fine Arts in Boston” which appeared in Justin Winsor’s The Memorial History of Boston (1880-81). His facility with languages resulted in the translation of Heinrich Heine's Life Told in his Own Words (1893). His artistic leanings were not limited to the erudite, however. A passion for the theater led him to both sides of the stage. Boston theater reviews frequently noted his presence in the front row on opening nights, and his own acting skills were not inconsiderable. The Boston Herald (December 21, 1890) observed that Dexter was an “amateur of extended reputation. He has played many times, and always like an artist.” In the 1880s and 1890s, Dexter was a prominent member of Boston society. As a man of means, he belonged to the Somerset Club, the Myopia Club, and other gentlemen’s associations. However, he was also involved in numerous artistic and charitable organizations, including the St. Botolph’s Club, the Boston Society of Decorative Arts, the Hospital Newspaper Society, and, most extensively, the Farm School for Indigent Boys. Upon his death in January of 1897, the Boston Daily Advertiser made much of his brilliance and “genius,” concluding that “he was, indeed, a man of high mental polish, rare cultivation and excellent conversation.”

Page 1: [Arthur Dexter] Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 14.4 x 8.8 cm. Subject: Bust-length, profile portrait of the photographer, Arthur Dexter, wearing spectacles.

Page 2: W. W. Story Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 14.5 x 8.8 cm. Photographer’s initials in right of print. Title inscribed in ink under print. Subject: Three-quarters length, frontal portrait of the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895). He is seated, wears a velvet jacket and striped trousers, and holds a cigarette or cigar in his right hand.

Page 3: Palazzo Pubblico [sic] – Siena Photographic print, ca. 1868 Print dimensions: 16.8 x 11 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. 4

Subject: An exterior view of the town hall and the bell tower, Torre del Mangia, in the Palazzo Publico in Siena, Italy.

Page 4: Duomo – Orvieto Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 16.3 x 11.6 cm. Title inscribed in graphite below print. Subject: A view of the exterior façade of Orvieto Cathedral in the town of Orvieto in Umbria in central Italy.

Page 5: Miss Bessie Ward Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 12.9 x 7.8 cm. Subject: Bust-length, profile portrait of Bessie Ward, born Elizabeth Barker Ward (1847- 1926), later Elizabeth Ward Schönberg.

Page 6: St. Maria della Spina – Pisa Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 14.4 x 9 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower right corner of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The front entrance and side of the Santa Maria della Spina in Pisa, Italy.

Page 7: Pisa Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 8.8 x 14.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower left corner of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Cathedral and Tower of Pisa in Cathedral Square (Piazza del Duomo) in Pisa, Italy.

Page 8: Porta S. Lorenzo – Rome. As it was. Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 11 x 15.8 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Porta San Lorenzo, also known as the Porta Tiburtina, in Rome, Italy. 5

Page 9: Portico of Octavius. In the Ghetto. Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 16.9 x 12.2 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A photograph of the Portico of Octavia in the Roman Ghetto in the Sant’Angelo district of Rome, Italy.

Page 10: Baths of Caracalla Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 11.8 x 15.9 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Graphite inscription under title: “as they were before Rossi spoiled them.” Subject: The ruins of the Baths of Caracalla. The inscription probably refers to the excavations of the archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi (1822-1894).

Page 11: Caracalla Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 11.4 x 16.5 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.

Page 12: Porta S. Lorenzo (as it was) Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 8.9 x 14..4 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower left and lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Porta San Lorenzo, also known as the Porta Tiburtina, in Rome, Italy.

Page 13: Spanish Steps Photographic prints, n.d. Print dimensions: 10.6 x 14.9 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The Spanish Steps in Rome from the Piazza di Spagna looking towards the church Trinità dei Monti.

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Polyxena (Story) Photographic print, n.d. Left print dimensions: 13.4 x 8.1 cm. Right print dimensions: 13.2 x 8.2 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower right corner of both prints. Title inscribed in graphite. Subject: Side and back views of the statue Polyxena by the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895).

Page 15: On the Tiber Photographic print, December 1869 Print dimensions: 11.9 x 16.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date in lower center of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The River Tiber with boats. A paddle steamer, identified as S.P.10, is shown in the foreground with other riverboats.

Page 16: Moonlight at the Coliseum Photographic print, n.d. Print dimensions: 11.2 x 16.1 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Coliseum in Rome at night.

Page 17: My Studio Garden Photographic print, March 1870. Print dimensions: 12.4 x 15.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date in lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The garden outside of the photographer’s studio in Rome, Italy.

Page 18: Tiber – Moonlight Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 11.9 x 16.1 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The Tiber river in Rome at night.

Page 19: Triton – Pa. Barberini Photographic print, ca. 1870 7

Print dimensions: 13.8 x 8.3 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under image. Subject: The Triton Fountain by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Piazza Barberini in Rome Italy.

Page 20: Near the Pa. San Giovanni Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 11.6 x 16 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Depicts part of the Aurelian Wall in Rome, Italy near the Porta San Giovanni.

Page 21: Caracalla Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 12.2 x 16.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.

Page 22: Caracalla Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 11.5 x 17.2 cm. Photographer’s monogram in center right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.

Page 23: Garden of the Quirinal Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 9.9 x 14.9 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The formal gardens at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy.

Page 24: Oberland Photographic print, November 1872 Print dimensions: 11.7 x 16.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under image. Subject: A portion of the façade of the photographer’s family home, Oberland, in the Prides Crossing section of Beverly, Mass. 8

Page 25: Oberland Photographic print, November 1872 Print dimensions: 11.7 x 16.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The photographer’s family home, Oberland, and surrounding grounds in the Prides Crossing section of Beverly, Mass.

Page 26: T. Adolphus Trollope Photographic print, Rome, January 25, 1874 Print dimensions: 24.2 x 18.8 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date in print lower right. Title inscribed in ink under print. Subject: Half-length, frontal portrait of the novelist and writer Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-1892). He is seated and holds his left hand to his brow.

Page 27: [Italian Model] Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 22.7 x 17.5 cm. Subject: Bust-length portrait of an older Italian woman with a white scarf on her head. Probably one of the photographer’s models.

Page 28: [John Rollin Tilton] Photographic print, February 1874 Print dimensions: 22.3 x 16.3 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right margin of print. Subject: Half-length, frontal portrait of the American expatriate painter John Rollin Tilton (1828-1888). He is seated in a chair with his right arm against the back of the chair.

Page 29: Murillo Pinxt Photographic print, ca. 1870 Print dimensions: 20.1 x 19.3 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. 9

Subject: A photographic reproduction of a painting of two cherubs by the Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The painting is in an ornate oval frame surrounded by rays.

Page 30: Maria Photographic print, 1874 Print dimensions: 20.2 x 13.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date in right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Three-quarters length, frontal view of the photographer’s model, Maria. She is dressed in Italian peasant garb, is seated and rests her hand and arm against a column.

Page 31: [Italian Beggar] Photographic print, 1874 Print dimensions: 19.5 x 11.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Inscribed in graphite under print: “This poor old man came to my studio. He was hungry & begged for half a soldo ‘for the love of the Madonna & to buy a bit of bread.’ I took his photograph – and gave him half a lira. Whereat he cursed me roundly and went away.” Subject: Portrait of an older man with white curly hair and beard and dressed in rags. He is seated on a chair, holds a walking stick in one hand and a hat in the other.

Page 32: [Unidentified Man] Photographic print, Rome, March 1874 Print dimensions: 18.2 x 13.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date in left of print.

Page 33: Laura Photographic print, ca. 1874 Print dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date in right of print (both partially cropped – date is “187?”). Title inscribed in graphite under image. Subject: Half-length, frontal portrait of the photographer’s model, Laura. She wears a white scarf over her head and has her hand’s crossed.

Page 34: J. R. Lowell. Rome. 9th April 1874 Photographic print, Rome, April 1874. Print dimensions: 21.1 x 15.8 cm. 10

Photographer’s monogram, place, and partial date in right of print. Title inscribed in ink under print. Subject: Half-length, seated portrait of the American author, editor, and diplomat James Russell Lowell (1819-1891).

Page 35 (and verso of page 34) (three photographs on two leaves): The Three Attitudes of Prayer 3 photographic prints, ca. 1874 Print dimensions: 17.7 x 11.8 cm. Photographer’s monogram in lower left of both prints on page 35. Subject: Three photographs of a man in prayer; he wears a turban and a floor-length robe. The left photograph shows the man standing, the center photograph shows the man knelling, and the right photographs shows the man bowing. Possibly the Boston expatriate painter Hamilton Gibbs Wilde dressed in costume as an Arab.

Page 36: Mustapha Ben Ham wild Photographic print, Rome, April 1874 Print dimensions: 24.6 x 19.4 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date in lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A man, wearing a turban and long robe, reclines on a sofa. He holds a long pipe (?) to his mouth. Same man as on page 34 and verso of page 33. Possibly the Boston expatriate painter Hamilton Gibbs Wilde dressed in costume as an Arab.

Page 37: [Arthur Dexter] Photographic print, Rome, 1874 Print dimensions: 17.5 x 11.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram, date, and place in center left of print. Subject: A self-portrait of the photographer, half-length, frontal view.

Page 38: [William Wetmore Story] Photographic print, Rome, 1874 Print dimensions: 19.1 x 12.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram, date, and place in center left of print. Subject: Three-quarters length, frontal portrait of the American sculptor William Wetmore Story (1819-1895). He is seated in a chair with his right arm resting on an adjacent table.

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Page 39: The Party Photographic print, Philae, January 23, 1875 Print dimensions: 21.8 x 19.4 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite right margin of sheet. Subject: A group portrait with individual identified in graphite under print as: Mrs. Dexter (Mrs. Franklin Dexter – Catherine Prescott Dexter – 1799-1891); Miss Goodridge; Thatcher M. Adams; AD (self-portrait of the photographer, Arthur Dexter); Gen. McClellan (General George B. McClellan – 1826-1885); Mrs. McClellan; Mrs. Randolph (Mrs. Mary Amelia Mann Marcy); Mary McClellan (1861-1945); Max McClellan (George B. McClellan, Jr. 1865-1940).

Page 40: Crew of the “Alice” Photographic print, Philae, January 21, 1875 Print dimensions: 21.8 x 19.5 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower left of print. Inscribed in ink lower right of print: “Crew of the [Arabic?] / Philae. Jany. 21st 1875.” Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Group portrait of thirteen men wearing turbans on a ship.

Page 41: Phylae Photographic print, Philae, ca. 1875 Print dimensions: 17.9 x 23.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram and place inscribed in ink lower right of sheet. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: View of an ancient temple (Trajan’s Kiosk) on the island of Philae in Lake Nasser, Egypt.

Page 42: A Sakkieh Photographic print, ca. 1875 Print dimensions: 18.4 x 23.8 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A covered well and water wheel in Egypt.

Page 43: Phylae Photographic print, January 1875 Print dimensions: 13.1 x 19.4 cm. 12

Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: View of an ancient temple (Trajan’s Kiosk) on the island of Philae in Lake Nasser, Egypt.

Page 44: Phylae Photographic print, January 22, 1875 Print dimensions: 17.7 x 23.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: View of an ancient temple (Trajan’s Kiosk) on the island of Philae in Lake Nasser, Egypt.

Page 45: Kalabshee Photographic print, January 21, 1875 Print dimensions: 20 x 23.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the portico of the Temple of Kalabsha in Nubia, Egypt.

Page 46: Edfoo Photographic print, January 27, 1875 Print dimensions: 19.2 x 24 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in ink center lower edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The town of Edfu, Egypt with a river (Nile?) and wooden bridge in the foreground.

Page 47: Biggeh Photographic print, ca. 1875 Print dimensions: 12 x 19 cm. Title inscribed in graphite lower right of print; title inscribed in ink lower right edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Ancient ruins on the Island of Biggeh in Egypt.

Page 48: Phylae, from Biggeh Photographic print, January 22, 1875 Print dimensions: 11 x 19 cm. 13

Photographer’s monogram [cropped], title, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Temple of Isis on the island of Phylae from Biggeh, Egypt.

Page 49: Memnonium, Thebes Photographic print, February 2, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.6 x 24 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Inscribed in graphite lower left corner of print: “Thebes.” Title inscribed in graphite under print. Inscribed in graphite above title: (Colosseus – (& T. M. Adams)) Subject: A view of the Osirian pilasters in the Hypostle Hall and the fallen statue of Rameses II in the “Memnonium,” the Ramesseum mortuary temple of Ramesses in Thebes, Egypt. The photographer’s travelling companion, Thatcher M. Adams, is seated on the colossal fallen statue of Rameses II.

Page 50: By the Memnonium Photographic print, February 2, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.2 x 24.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Inscribed in graphite lower left corner of print: “Thebes.” Inscribed in ink center lower edge of print: “The Past & the Present.” Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: An Egyptian man dressed in a long robe leaning against a carved stone head of a pharaoh.

Page 51: Phylae Photographic print, January 1875 Print dimensions: 9.9 x 24.3 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of the Temple of Isis on the island of Phylae in Egypt.

Page 52: Phylae Photographic print, January 27, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.3 x 24.3 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: View of an ancient temple (Trajan’s Kiosk) on the island of Philae in Lake Nasser, Egypt.

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Page 53: Gow el Gharbee Photographic print, ca. 1874 Print dimensions: 11.8 x 18.8 cm. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A picture of ruins and palm trees.

Page 54: Gow el Gharbee Photographic print, December 11, 1874 Print dimensions: 11.1 x 18.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Egyptian dwellings.

Page 55: Gazeereh Traga near Esne Photographic print, January 28, 1875 Print dimensions: 11.6 x 18.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under image. Subject: Three Egyptian men leaning against a wall with dwellings and palm trees in the background.

Page 56: Gazeereh Traga Photographic print, January 1875 Print dimensions: 11.2 x 18.5 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Inscribed in ink center lower edge of print: “Gazeereh Traga (Esne).” Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Ancient dwellings and palm trees near the Egyptian town of Esna.

Page 57: Esbe Photographic print, January 29, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.2 x 23.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite lower left of print. Title and date inscribed in graphite center left edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: An ancient fort.

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Esbe (Sakkieh) Photographic print, January 29, 1875 Print dimensions: 8.5 x 23.3. cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Place inscribed in graphite lower center of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A sakkieh or water wheel in Egypt.

Page 59: The Fleet at Phylae Photographic print, January 22, 1875 Print dimensions: 18.7 x 24 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Inscribed in ink lower right of print: “at Philae.” Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Four river boats on the Nile. The names of the boats are identified in graphite under the print as “Nellie,” “Zarifa,” “Mignonne,” and “Alice.”

Page 60: Kalabshee Photographic print, January 21, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.6 x 23.4 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A view of Kalabshee in Nubia, Egypt.

Page 61: “Nelly” & “Zarifa” at Kalabshee Photographic print, January 21, 1875 Print dimensions: 9 x 22.9 cm. Title and date inscribed in ink lower edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Two riverboats docked at river shore.

Page 62: “Alice” Photographic print, December 16, 1874 Print dimensions: 22.3 x 18.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink along lower edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The photographer’s riverboat docked at shore.

Page 63: “Mignonne” and “Alice” at the Foot of the Great Gate: First Cataract Photographic print, December 1874 16

Print dimensions: 19.7 x 16.6 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title etched in the negative lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: The photographer’s riverboats docked on the Nile.

Page 64: A Shadoof Photographic print, January 29, 1875 Print dimensions: 22.7 x 19 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Inscribed in graphite lower right of print: “Esbeh.” Title inscribed in ink center lower edge of print. Subject: A man operating a shadoof.

Page 65: Memnonium Photographic print, February 2, 1875 Print dimensions: 23.3 x 19.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date inscribed in ink lower right or print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Interior of a temple in the Theban Necropolis looking towards the colossal fallen statue of Rameses II.

Page 66: Phylae Photographic print, January 1875 Print dimensions: 23.4 x 18.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Shows the temple hieroglyphics on the western colonnade on the island of Philae in Egypt.

Page 67: Gow el Gharbee Photographic print, December 10, 1874 Print dimensions: 21.3 x 18.2 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower right edge of print. Place and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A group of Arab men sitting in front of some dwellings, several of them are smoking long pipes.

Page 68: Rais Achmet (“Alice”) Photographic print, December 1874 17

Print dimensions: 23.1 x 18.5 cm. Photographer’s monogram and date [cropped] inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: An Arab man in turban and long robe sits on the deck of the river boat “Alice” and smokes a long pipe.

Page 69: Korusko Photographic print, January 26, 1875 Print dimensions: 21 x 17.1 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A group of Arabs standing and sitting in an Egyptian village.

Page 70: Phylae Photographic print, January 1875 Print dimensions: 20 x 23.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Shows the temple hieroglyphics on the western colonnade on the island of Philae in Egypt.

Page 71: Mishtah Girls Photographic print, January 22, 1875 Print dimensions: 23.9 x 19.4 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Portraits of two Middle Eastern women standing against an outdoor wall.

Page 72: [Portrait of a Man at Gow el Gharbee] Photographic print, December 9, 1874 Print dimensions: 23.9 x 17.5 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink and graphite lower left of print. Place and date inscribed in ink lower right of print. Subject: An elderly Arab man holding a long staff.

Page 73: Sioot Photographic print, February 12, 1875 Print dimensions: 23.7 x 18.8 cm. 18

Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribe in ink lower center of print. Subject: An elderly Arab man holding a staff and leaning against rocks.

Page 74: Mishtah. A Good House. Photographic print, January 22, 1875 Print dimensions: 18.9 x 23.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower left edge of print. Place and date inscribed in ink in lower right edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Five Arab women standing and sitting in front of a stone dwelling in Mishta, Egypt.

Page 75: Wadee Halfa Photographic print, January 13, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.2 x 24 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower right of print. Place, date, and Arabic letters inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Two Arab men and two Arab boys seated next to a camel in Wadi Halfa in northern Sudan.

Page 76: Wadee Halfa Photographic print, January 13, 1875 Print dimensions: 9.2 x 23.9 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, date, and Arabic letters inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: Several camels in an enclosure in Wadi Halfa in northern Sudan.

Page 77: A Phylae Beauty Photographic print, January 21, 1875 Print dimensions: 19.2 x 22.2 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A young Arab girl standing against a stone wall.

Page 78: Wadee Halfa Photographic print, January 13, 1875 Print dimensions: 18.6 x 23.7 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, date, and Arabic letters inscribed in ink lower left of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. 19

Subject: Arab men and boys seated next to a camel in Wadi Halfa in northern Sudan.

Page 79: Gow el Gharbee – The Best House in the Village Photographic print, December 10, 1874 Print dimensions: 19.5 x 23.8 cm. Photographer’s monogram, place, and date inscribed in graphite along lower left edge of print. Title inscribed in graphite under print. Subject: A group of Arabs standing outside a dwelling in Gow el Gharbee, Egypt.

Page 80: Out of Window – Tempietto Photographic print, 1876 Print dimensions: 17.5 x 23.5 cm. Photographer’s monogram inscribed in ink lower right corner of print. Title inscribed in ink center lower edge of print. Subject: A photograph of the Sallustiano obelisk in front of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti at the top of the Spanish steps in Rome, Italy.