Sujet

The Desert Route - Latakia, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Desert Route - Latakia, 1857. 'Not much is to be seen without; but...the interior of some of the houses in this street - for instance, that very identical one near the black girl that is carrying the bag of wheat - have marble pavements, and princely apartments to boot. All is a scene of dilapidation in the streets. The earthquake of 1822 has left very many signs of its mighty strength and duration. The two handsomely-carved pillars on the right-hand side are what once constituted a magnificent mosque. At every twenty paces there is a coffee-shop, and loiterers lazily linger in this pestiferous neighbourhood, smoking their pipes...The minaret in the distance is on the outskirts of the town, and there the scenery is as picturesque and the air as pure as they are the reverse in this narrow and filthy thoroughfare'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_278

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

4,7Mo (441,4Ko) / 40,4cm x 51,0cm / 1145 x 1447 (72dpi)

Mots clés

building buildings religious mosque town Middle East country religion market trade British color Middle Eastern Islam Islamic location century Britain newspapers press Syria B&W street scene engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN street newspaper Unknown Al Ladhiqiyah Latakia 19th-century