Zeyat (oilman), his shop and customers, circa 1848

Plate vii: oil shop in cairo, the shopkeeper wearing a turban stands behind the counter and pours oil from a jug into a small vessel, on the counter another lidded jug, a basket and a metal container on a mat, in the street in front of the shop, a man wearing a cap, a vessel balanced on his head, a basket slung over one shoulder, and a child holding a jug on her head, a dog alongside; inside the shop shelves with vessels and a set of scales (?) and outside to left a leafy tree along the 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: 353 mm (image; sheet trimmed); Width: 258 mm. Medium: paper. Depicted People: James Augustus St John. Collection: British Museum.