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Fuwa, Viewed from the Island
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey French
Not on view
Girault prized this view of Fuwa, a peninsula city on the widest section of the Rashid branch of the Nile. It is the only daguerreotype reproduced in both albums of prints that he published at his own expense after his return to France. The riverbank city surmounted by minarets and dotted with palms represented for Girault a quintessential picture of Egypt that had both scholarly and popular appeal.
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