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- 2/4/1884 (Creation)
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16.5 x 11 cm
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Photograph of a man in a suit and sitting on a rock, from the photo shop of N. Fettel & Cie of Alexandria. The photo shop's name in the lower part of the recto. The full logo on the verso. At top right of the verso, faded illegible handwritten dedication in ink to J.C.C. (most likely John Cavafy) and the date; the name of the person depicted ("captain Th[eodore?] Osborne") and the name of the steamboat ("Mareotis").
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French
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Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations.
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N. Fettel & Cie (ancienne maison E. Béchard). “Photograph of a man”. Photograph, 02.04.1884. GR-OF CA CA-SF02-S03-F26-SF003-0001 (1962), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF02-S03-F26-SF003-0001.
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- N. Fettel & Cie (ancienne maison E. Béchard) (Authority)
- Osborne, Th. (Subject)
- Société Française de Photographie (Subject)
- Cavafy, John Constantine (Subject)