2-708-738 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Return of the Holy Carpet from Mekka to Cairo', 1876, (1965). Egyptian street scene showing a religious procession. The mahmal was a highly decorated covering mat or carpet for the Kaaba at Mecca in Saudi Arabia. A new one was made in Cairo each year. Painting, also known as 'The handing over of the Sacred Carpet in Cairo', in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]