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  • Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • An old man smokes a long-stemmed pipe, others water-pipes, in a Turkish coffee house. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, 1824.
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    Cairo: a coffee-house with men sitting on wooden benches to smoke and drink. Colour lithograph by G.W. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.

    Werner, Karl Friedrich Heinrich, 1808-1894. | Date: [1878] | Reference: 25224i
    Part of: Carl Werner's Nile-sketches, painted from nature during his travels through Egypt. Facsimiles of water-color-paintings executed by Gustav W. Seitz, with accompanying text by Dr A. E. Brehm and Dr Johannes Dümichen
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    An old man smokes a long-stemmed pipe, others water-pipes, in a Turkish coffee house. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, 1824.

    Preziosi, Amadeo, 1816-1882. | Date: 1924 | Reference: 25473i
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