Photographer: Arnoux, Hippolyte.
Title: 638 (Groupe des dromadaires).
Date: circa 1860-1880.
Country: Egypt/the Autonomous Khedivate of Egypt under nominal Ottoman sovereignty.
Medium: unmounted vintage albumen print.
Size: 20,5 x 26,5 cm.
Condition: good, on the reverse side of the photograph, subtle traces of dried adhesive are visible in the three corners on the verso from previous mounting in an album or on a backing.
Reference: HAV0220/2
Provenance: French collection.
Extra:  numbered in the negative. The negative contains a reference to Arnoux Port Said and 630 groupe de dromadaires as part of the title.
Hippolyte Arnoux (active ca. 1860 – ca. 1890) was a French photographer and publisher. He was one of the first photographers to produce images of Egypt and documented the Suez Canal project with extensive photographs and a publication. Arnoux is known to have established a studio at Place de Consuls in Port Said in the 1860s, and later a different studio at Place Ferdinand de Lesseps also in Port Said. In this period Arnoux documented the excavation of the Suez Canal and published the resulting photographs. At the same time, he occasionally worked with the Port Said photographic studio, Adelphoi Zangaki. In the late 1860s, Arnoux was a partner of Antonio Beato.