FRANCIS BEDFORD (1815-94)
View from Mosque of Mehemet Ali, M. of S. Hasan [Mosque of Muhammad Ali and Mosque of Sultan Hassan, Cairo]
3 March 1862RCIN 2700862
The Prince of Wales climbed to the roof of the Mosque of Muhammad Ali to admire the view across the city. He wrote in his journal, ‘we had a splendid view of the town & country & the Pyramids in the distance fr. the roof’. Here Bedford includes the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, built in the mid-fourteenth century.
Acquired by the Prince of Wales, 1862