サザビーズのインスタグラム(sothebys) - 4月28日 17時18分

Painted in 1891, ‘The Tobacco Seller, Cairo’ by Raphael von Ambros depicts a busy stall outside a coffee shop in the streets of #Cairo. The development of a major cigarette industry in #Egypt in the late 19th century was unexpected, given that the cultivation and processing of tobacco in Egyptian and other peripheral Ottoman provinces was banned as part of a state tobacco monopoly. Tobacco traders from across the Ottoman Empire moved to Cairo to take advantage of a loophole in the law, namely that Egypt was outside of the monopoly because of its ‘de facto’ occupation by the British. Egyptian cigarettes became so popular in Europe and the United States that they inspired a larger number of locally produced versions, including the American Camel brand, established in 1913, which used on its packet three Egyptian motifs: the camel, the pyramids, and a palm tree.
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On view in our #London galleries this weekend as part of our annual Orientalist Sale on 30 April. #SothebysMiddleEast

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