Item E. W. Lane MSS 8.11 - Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun, Cairo

1 watercolour

View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Mosque of Ibu Too'loo'n, vulgarly called Ga'me' Teyloo'n — a, dome over the tank — b, the great minaret — / c, minaret of a mosque at the eastern angle of the Ckal'' at el-Kebsh — / Erected A H 263 AD 876-7' (pencil note)

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

• Binding loose
• Foxing has caused discolouration around edges of mount