The Gate of El Metwalli, Cairo, Egypt Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Defeat of the Floating Batteries

'Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar'

the two colours separated by an architectural pillar

On the left is 'Peter Pindar'

North west view of East India House

The main objective of his last voyage was to find a northern sea passage between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans

The Gate of El Metwalli, Cairo, Egypt Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Defeat of the Floating BatteriesThe Gate of El Metwalli, Cairo, Egypt, c1829 (1956). The gate was built by the Fatimids in the 1090s. A print from Places, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.