Grand Minaret, Alexandria (73. Alexandrie. 1842. Grand Minaret.?)

Identified by Girault only as the Grand Minaret, this building no longer survives in Alexandria. Photographs of a British bombardment of the city in 1882 show it in what would have been the modern quarter. Therefore, it was an early nineteenth-century minaret built in a tradi­tional Mamluk style, evidence that medieval revivalism, which had in part instigated Girault's journey, was not con­fined to the West.

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  • Title: Grand Minaret, Alexandria (73. Alexandrie. 1842. Grand Minaret.?)
  • Artist: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (French, 1804–1892)
  • Date: 1842
  • Medium: Daguerreotype
  • Dimensions: Image: 9 1/2 × 3 11/16 in. (24.1 × 9.4 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Philippe de Montebello Fund, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel and Annette de la Renta Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2016 (2016.96)
  • Object Number: 2016.96
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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