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

A man selling medicinal drugs to a woman in a bazaar in Constantinople. Colour lithograph after Preziosi, 1857.

A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands. Colour lithograph after Amadeo Preziosi.

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

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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Amedeo Preziosi

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Images by Amedeo Preziosi

Works from the collections

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

A man selling medicinal drugs to a woman in a bazaar in Constantinople. Colour lithograph after Preziosi, 1857.

A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands. Colour lithograph after Amadeo Preziosi.

An old man smokes a long-stemmed pipe, others water-pipes, in a Turkish coffee house. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, 1824.

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

Amedeo Preziosi

Images from the collections

Images by Amedeo Preziosi

Works from the collections

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

A man selling medicinal drugs to a woman in a bazaar in Constantinople. Colour lithograph after Preziosi, 1857.

A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands. Colour lithograph after Amadeo Preziosi.

An old man smokes a long-stemmed pipe, others water-pipes, in a Turkish coffee house. Chromolithograph by A. Preziosi, 1824.

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

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