Port Said, Egypt: a quarantine station. Wood engraving by W. Kemp after J.N. Schönberg, 1882.

1882

1 print : wood engraving ; image 10 x 14.9 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/76/31

The quarantine house at Port Said, occupied by Egyptian soldiers. Schonberg, Port Said, 1882. Kemp sc.

Here attributed to William Kemp, although the signature differs from the "W. Kemp sc." signature recorded by Engen (loc. cit.) and visible e.g. on William Kemp's wood engraving of 'Sketches around Balmoral', Illustrated London news, 23 October 1880, p. 416. The present print is however in a similar style, described by Engen as "engraved as delicate etched line against stark white backgrounds"

Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian wood engravers, Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985, p. 144

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