Collection of 37 sketches and 32 watercolours by Lance Thackeray, depicting street scenes and characters observed in Egypt in the early 1900s. The fifth painting shows a Peep-Show Man or Beta Sanduk el Dunia in a street in Cairo. A print of this image is also in the BDC collections - item number EXEBD 70019 at S 829. With an introduction by Gordon Home.

Item number 34528
Category Book
Type Peepshow
Language English
Country of origin UK
Related people Lance Thackeray (Artist)
Gordon Home (Author)

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection