Live Auction 6468Christie's Interiors
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (Tuskagee, Alabama 1847-1928 Rouen, France)
Lot 894

Frederick Arthur Bridgman (Tuskagee, Alabama 1847-1928 Rouen, France)

Boulaq, Cairo, Egypt (illustrated); Camels beside Bedouin tents on the banks of the Nile; and Dunes in Nubia, Egypt

Closed18 July 2012

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Frederick Arthur Bridgman (Tuskagee, Alabama 1847-1928 Rouen, France)
Boulaq, Cairo, Egypt (illustrated); Camels beside Bedouin tents on the banks of the Nile; and Dunes in Nubia, Egypt
all three with artist's studio stamp (lower right); the first inscribed and dated 'Boulac [sic] April 22 1874' (lower left); the third inscribed and dated 'Nubia 9 Feb 1874' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out, on paper
9 x 11¾ in. (22.8 x 29.8 cm.); 6½ x 9¾ in. (16.5 x 24.7 cm.); and 3 5/8 x 6 in. (9.3 x 15.3 cm.) (3)

Specialist note

Boulaq is a district of Cairo on the east bank of the Nile. It was significant at the time of Bridgman's visit as the home of the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, the first national institution of its kind in the Middle East. It was also the port from which tourists set off on their journeys up the Nile.