IDNO

P.52904.RDG

Description

View of the Bab-Debbagh gateway with one man walking and another riding on donkey passing through portal. The Bab-Debbagh is one five defensive gates to the city of Marrakech, and gives access to the district of tanners. The gate is constructed from stone and set into rampart wall two metres thick and made of pise (clay and straw).

Place

N Africa; Morocco; Marrakech

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Reunis, Levy and Neurdein

Collector / Expedition

Ridgeway, William

Date

post 1919

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.

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