‘d’après une photographie de l’auteur’; ill. no. 208 in Le Bon, La Civilisation des Arabes, 1884.
Two rectangular stucco and glass windows with a cypress on each side, flanking a central field with a geometric pattern.
Gustave Le Bon made this photograph during his stay in Cairo in 1882. He does not say to which mosque in Cairo these two windows belong. No similar specimens are preserved in European collections. As can be deduced from an undated photograph by Pascal Sébah, the windows were then in the collection of the Museum of Arab Art (today the Museum of Islamic Art) (see IG_420).
Le Bon’s photograph was reprinted in Windows. A Book About Stained & Painted Glass, published in 1897 in London by the British artist and designer Lewis Foreman Day (fig. 4).
Day, L. F. (1897). Windows. A Book About Stained & Painted Glass, London: B. T. Batsford.
Le Bon, G. (1884). La civilisation des Arabes. Paris: Firmin-Didot.