IDNO

P.52902.RDG

Description

Interior of the room for ‘kings’ in the Tomb of Saadiens, a seventeenth century Moslem family tomb decorated with Moorish ornamental work of interlacing and interweaving geometric arabesques. Stone caskets are set into the floor in foreground.

Place

N Africa; Morocco; Marrakech

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Flandrin, Marcelin [Photo Studio, Casablanca]

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

circa 1922

Collection Name

Ridgeway Collection

Source

Format

Postcard

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.52889.RDG to P.52908.RDG came from envelope now numbered C235/3/ which was found inside envelope C235/. The latter
came from wooden drawer I.

Biographical Information: Marcelin Flandrin was Frenceh, born after 1889, died after 1957. He went to Morocco in 1912 for military service, later returning to settle in Casablanca and establish a photographic studio. In 1922 he took a series of photographs on Marseilles, the houses of Morocco. Flandrin became one of the most important editors of postcards of Morocco. [Source: Arique Francaise du Nord Collections, http://afn.collections.free.fr/pages/22_flandrin.html, JD 28/6/2007]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 16/10/2006]