Construction site of the Suez Canal at El Guisr,... Lot 5

Construction site of the Suez Canal at El Guisr, Egypt. Photographic print on albumen paper pasted on cardboard, handwritten mention in ink " Suez Canal, Ramp of the Threshold of El Guisr 1867 ", 1867, dimensions 15,3 x 25,5 cm. Amazing print taken from a drawing representing the works of the Suez Canal. The draftsman took angles similar to the prints that Louis Cuvier could make at the same time on the site of El Guisr. He thus realized a sort of photo montage between a real base and a drawn base that he then photographed. We can distinguish the machines specifically built for this site, the boats, docks, workers' houses, as well as the workers present on the site. He thus synthesizes in a photographic print the enormous construction site that represented at the time the creation of this new axis of world traffic that totally changed the habits of travel for the navy and for individuals.