Caire - Restaurant arabe — Tuck's Postcard, série IX

Descrizione

Scène animée d'un restaurant arabe à Caire, avec des palmiers, des clients et une femme portant un panier. Texte imprimé en verso : 'Arab Restaurant, Cairo. Here, under the feathery date-palms and duna-palms, native Cairo comes to drink coffee and sherbet, to eat seethed kid and cloying sweet-meats. The Fellah woman in the background is carrying a basket full of greenstuff, probably beans, a staple food in ancient and modern Egypt.' Destinataire : Madame L. Cilier, Vigne-aux-Bois (France).