'Erste Ansicht der Stadt Mekka: links im Hintergrund die Festung Djijād. Das grosse Gebäude rechts ist ied [sic for ‘die’] H̱amīdijjah, links daneben die Druckerei'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Erste Ansicht der Stadt Mekka: links im Hintergrund die Festung Djijād. Das grosse Gebäude rechts ist ied [sic for ‘die’] H̱amīdijjah, links daneben die Druckerei'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
- Date:
- 1886/1889
- Description:
- Genre/Subject MatterThis image shows a view over the city of Mecca from an elevated position east of the Masjid al-Haram, or Grand Mosque. Parts of the city due south of the mosque are visible in the middle ground. (Compare, for example, X463/1.)In the left of the image on the horizon, the fortified structure known as ‘Jiyad Castle’ is visible. The large building on the right is identified in the title as the ‘Hamidiyah’, a two-storey building which is described in the title of a photograph in Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje’s earlier publication of 1888, Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka(1781.b.6/4) as a government building built by Governor General Othman Pascha. This was likely constructed during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876–1909) and was therefore relatively new.The two-storey pale-coloured building to the left of this is identified as the ‘printing house’ (cf. X463/6).Derelict or semi-derelict structures make up the foreground while hills rise in the background.This is the first of four photographs taken from the same vantage point, which form a panoramic view over the city of Mecca. The second, third and fourth are X463/3, X463/4 and X463/5 respectively.InscriptionsAbove image, on the right, in ink: ‘II’Lower centre and upper centre: Illegible, partially erased Arabic script1 collotype printDimensions:190 x 243 mmFormat:Collotype print, pasted into volumeCondition:The print is in good condition with minor surface dirt and light abrasions, though no surface losses in the lower right of centre.Foliation:‘II’Process:Collotype
- Language:
- Arabic
- Type:
- Photograph
- Type (Narrower):
- Photographs
- Type (Broader):
- Image
- Subject:
- Landscape photography
Historic buildings - Extent:
- 1 collotype print
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100023514790.0x000002_ar
81055/vdc_100023514790.0x000002_en
X463/2 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers