Habesh or Abyssinian slave, circa 1848

Plate vi: interior of a house in cairo with in the centre, a young ethiopian woman holding the top bar of a carved wooden cot which is draped with a shawl or throw, while to right another young woman, hear hair plaited with beads (?) holds an infant in her arms, all three finely dressed and wearing headscarves or head shawls; wooden panel to left on the rear wall after prisse d'avennes; illustration to 'oriental album: characters, costumes, and modes of life in the valley of the nile', with text by james augustus st john and illustrations by e. Prisse [prisse d'avennes], london: james madden, 1848 lithograph with one tint-stone. Date: circa 1848. Dimensions: Height: 354 mm (image; sheet trimmed); Width: 253 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: James Augustus St John. Collection: British Museum.