Zeyat (oilman), his shop and customers (BM 1886,1012.326)

Plate VII: oil shop in Cairo, the shopkeeper wearing a turban stands behind the counter and pours oil from a jug into a small vessel, on the counter another lidded jug, a basket and a metal container on a mat, in the street in front of the shop, a man wearing a cap, a vessel balanced on his head, a basket slung over one shoulder, and a child holding a jug on her head, a dog alongside; inside the shop shelves with vessels and a set of scales (?) and outside to left a leafy tree along the wall; after Prisse D'Avennes; illustration to 'Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile', with text by James Augustus St John and illustrations by E. Prisse [Prisse D'Avennes], London: James Madden, 1848
Lithograph with one tint-stone