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Kasrenil and Citadel, Cairo

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Date

22 December, 1839

Artist

Isabella Fector (Laurie) (née Murray)

Collective Title

"Sketches by Isabella Laurie & her mother, some of Dover & coloured ones abroad & in Scotland"

Collection

Private Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Salah Al-Din Al-Ayoubi Castle, Cairo, Egypt

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Rivers
Cityscapes
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Religious Buildings

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

TWW Comment

Qasr al-Nil was a palace which Said Pasha (r. 1854-1863) destroyed to build barracks to house Egyptian-Ottoman army units in the late 1850s. a smaller part of that palace remained to house the army leadership and possibly himself. In 1882-83, the occupying British army units took over the army barracks. In 1948 did the British army evacuate the barracks and King Faruq (r. 1936-1952) ordered to destroy the buildings to start a new chapter in this urban area. (https://sites.duke.edu/cairemoderne/2019/05/30/the-kasr-el-nil-barracks-%D8%AB%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84/). It was replaced by an expanded Tahrir Square and the early 1950s modernist Nile Hilton Hotel complex. (Wikipedia)

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