"Hotel Shapheard au Caire". Circa 1860. Gold-toned albumen print. 24 x 31,5 cm. Signed and numbered 22 by the photographer in lower left corner, flush-mounted to original card (slightly soiled) with title printed below the image on the mount.
The Hotel Shapheard was one of the most popular hotels in Cairo during the mid-nineteenth century and Baedeker lists it as the favorite hotel of English tourists; consequently many photographer's, including Hammerschmidt himself, stayed there . - A good strong print with a dark purple-brown tone and in excellent condition.