[ Posters ] CAIRO / SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL 57 5x41.25 inches Richter, Naples Condition B: expertly restored losses in bottom margin affecting image and text; repaired tears and overpainting in margins affecting image and text Another of Borgoni's grand,

[ Posters ] CAIRO / SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL 57 5x41.25 inches Richter, Naples Condition B: expertly restored losses in bottom margin affecting image and text; repaired tears and overpainting in margins affecting image and text Another of Borgoni's grand, Liberty-style hotel posters, again for two of Cairo's grandest and most elegant hostelries Here the pyramids and Sphinx are presented from a different angle, and the camel-riding Egyptian in the foreground is colored to appear as part of the poster's border Built in 1841 by Samuel Shepheard, the hotel was originally a stopping-over spot for British passengers traveling to India The hotel was commandeered by Napoleon as his headquarters in 1849 The hotel burned down in 1952 Estimate E4 000-6 000