Sujet

Moorish Fountain, Algiers, 1858. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Moorish Fountain, Algiers, 1858. 'In all Mohammedan cities fountains are very numerous and picturesque, and often magnificent. Around them characteristic groups are always assembled, and water-jars are very graceful accessories. At Algiers the professional water-carriers are the Biskri, an industrious race from the oases of the Great Sahara...The streets leading to the Casbah get steeper as they ascend, and many of them are mere flights of steps, and so narrow that the projecting upper stories of the houses often meet above the street...[At] the Fountain we engrave, which a Jewess is drawing water; while a Biskri water-carrier, with two large bright copper jars, is waiting for employment'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_424

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

13,2Mo (1,3Mo) / 15,4cm x 21,5cm / 1819 x 2536 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa water building buildings female women woman people male job man men religious architecture archway arch arts country fountain fountains religion Moorish art guy occupation continent steps spring British geography castle color Islam Islamic fortifications fortification step location century jar casbah Britain profession newspapers press Algiers Algeria print kasbah Algerian North African B&W North Africa street scene engraved engraving water supply drinking water Architectural Feature Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black Water Jar Alcazaba nineteenth century The Print Collector El Djazair geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN water carrier ILN Bhisti street newspaper Unknown container Keystone Archives Hispano-Arabic Bhishti water jars water carriers 19th-century