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    IG_191: Book illustration: Vitraux d'une mosquée du Caire
    (MISC_IG_LeBon_1884_IG_191)

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    Title

    ‘Vitraux d’une mosquée du Caire’

    Type of Object
    Publication · Illustration
    Dimensions
    22 x 15 cm (page)
    Artist / Producer
    Le Bon, Gustave · Photographer, author
    Dating
    1882
    Research Project
    Luminosity of the East
    Author and Date of Entry
    Sarah Keller 2025

    Iconography

    Description

    ‘d’après une photographie de l’auteur’; ill. no. 207 in Le Bon, La Civilisation des Arabes, 1884.
    The rectangular stucco and glass window shows a mosque flanked by cypresses under an ogee arch and an Arabic inscription above.

    Iconclass Code
    12I61 · temple, shrine ~ Islam, Mohammedanism
    48C1435 · exterior ~ ideal or visionary architectural design or model
    49L142 · Arabic script
    49L8 · inscription
    Iconclass Keywords
    Arabic script · exterior · inscription · minaret · mosque · shrine · temple

    History

    Research

    Gustave Le Bon does not say to which mosque in Cairo this stucco and glass window belonged. Probably it belonged, like the windows in the following illustration (IG_77), to the collection of the Museum of Arab Art (Museum of Islamic Art MIA) in Cairo.
    A very similar window of this common type with a depiction of a mosque is preserved in The Metropolitan Museum in New York (IG_184). The mosque design, also flanked by cypresses, is similar, but there is no inscription. Another similar stucco and glass window with mosque, flanked by cypresses, with inscription can be found in the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (454/5).
    The same window has been drawn by Jules Bourgoin between 1881–1884 (IG_462).

    Dating
    1882
    Period
    1882 – 1884
    Related Locations
    Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo · ?

    Bibliography and Sources

    Literature

    Le Bon, G. (1884). La civilisation des Arabes. Paris: Firmin-Didot.

    Image Information

    Name of Image
    MISC_IG_LeBon_1884_IG_191

    Citation suggestion

    Keller, S. (2025). ‘Vitraux d’une mosquée du Caire’. In Vitrosearch. Retrieved December 5, 2025 from https://vitrosearch.ch/objects/2713035.

    Record Information

    Reference Number
    IG_191
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