Item E. W. Lane MSS 8.04 - Bab al-Nasr gate, Cairo

1 watercolour

View showing the Bab al-Nasr gate, the mosque of al-Hakim, and part of the city walls in Cairo. Although the caption mentions the Bab al-Futuh gate, it is not recorded in this watercolour.

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.4 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on verso of album page, at top left corner] 'The Ba'b en-Nasr & Ba'b el Footon' being two of the principal gates of Musr el(?) ~~xxxxxx xxxxxx xx xx ~~ : - a the former - b the latter. c c the two / minarets of the ruined mosque of El-Wha'kim. / Erected A H. 480 - A.D 1087-8.' (pencil note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• Foxing has caused discolouration around edges of the mount