Parisian firm of lithographic (and later photogravure) printers founded by Joseph Rose Lemercier (1803-1887)

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A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands.

Shops of hashish merchants on a street in Cairo. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, c. 1850, after himself.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Saint Michael and Raphael with Tobias. Photogravure after P. Vannucci, il Perugino.

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Shops of hashish merchants on a street in Cairo. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, c. 1850, after himself.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child, Saint Michael and Raphael with Tobias. Photogravure after P. Vannucci, il Perugino.

A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands.