Identifier: egyptpainteddesc00kell (find matches)
Title: Egypt painted and described
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Kelly, Robert Talbot, 1861-1934
Subjects: Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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she quietly slipped overher shoulders, and allowed to fall gradually, withouttouching water, or exposing an inch of her person,until, reaching the bank, she stood radiant in her freshclothing, with the w^et garments in her hand ! This town of Mit Gamr, with Zifta on the oppositebank, forms, I think, one of the most picturesque bitsin the country. The river sweeps broadly betweenthem in a double curve, the old houses rising directlyfrom the water on either side, and in many casessupported on built columns whose foundations aresubmerged. The buildings are very rich in colour; old whitewash,sunburned and weathered, is opposed to an edifice ofyellow stone or red brick, the whole gaining a sparkleand brilliance by contrast with the green-paintedwindow-shutters and the foliage of the arboured cafeson the banks. Some of the mosques have a curious double minaret,and in the town are many quaint corners which it hasalways been my intention one day to paint. Un- 130 A RUINED PALACE AT iMIT GAMR
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The Lower Nile fortunately, during this present spring looo houses and200 shops of the old town have been destroyed by fire,and I fear that my opportunity is lost. Without attempting any detailed description of themany days spent on this journey, I was speciallycharmed with the old town of Samanud, whose finebazaar facing the river is, I believe, the oldest existingin Egypt; though, alas! the trade which formerlycreated it has failed to preserve it in its pristinedignity and prosperity. Faraskur is another charming scene from the river,but without any special internal feature on exploration ;and of another type is the little village of Shinbab,whose tomb-mosque and tree-shaded huts looked verypicturesque in the early evening light. In pure landscape the Lower Nile is very rich, andthe populace is deferentially agreeable. Whenever I hadoccasion to leave the steamer I was treated with theutmost respect, and was never asked for a backsheeshexcepting once, when a small mite proffered the

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