Cholera Episode in Cairo, Jules Laurens, circa 1851

Plate 128: in the foreground, a small procession of people moving along a street in cairo, with at the front, a boy in a turban leading a donkey carrying a woman who supports herself on two men, walking on either side; other figures include two women carrying infants, one of them an older boy, a woman holding out a jug and another with hands held out; behind the figures, a building with an ornate facade and a small pavilion to right, where an older man wearing a turban and smoking a pipe, watches the scene, as does a dog below him in the street; after alexandre bida lithograph on grey chine collé; sheet trimmed. Date: circa 1851. Dimensions: Height: 254 mm (image); Width: 209 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Épisode du choléra au Caire (BM 1889,0608.475)