C1890 Albumen Photograph Statue of Queen Nefertiti, Temple of Amenhotep IV, Luxor ZANGAKI orders BROTHERS

orders Antique sepia image, HEAVY PAPER MOUNTED albumen (yes from the egg!) print, c1890 or earlier
image of Statue of Queen Nefretiti, Temple of Amenhotep IV, Luxor, EGYPT
BY ZANGAKI, lower left

BACKING measures 11x13, actual print measures approx 10 1/2 x 9

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OTHER THAN A SHORT TEAR ON BOTTOM EDGE, IMAGE IS EXCELLENT

FROM THE HORACE SMITH HALL OF SCULPTURE, CITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, stamp on back

The Zangaki brothers were two Greek photographers, active between 1870s-1890s, who worked in Egypt, producing prints for the tourist trade. They produced some of the finest images of late Victorian Egypt, yet so little is known about them. They were probably Greek Cypriots, although it has been suggested they may have come from Crete. Nothing is known of them before their photographs were published in Egypt in the late 1870s, and even the names of the brother themselves are unknown.

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The albumen print, also called albumen silver print, was published in January 1847 by Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, and was the first commercially exploitable method of producing a photographic print on a paper base from a negative. It used the albumen found in egg whites to bind the photographic chemicals to the paper and became the dominant form of photographic positives from 1855 to the start of the 20th century, with a peak in the 1860-90 period.

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