S. A. Le Khedive Abbas Hilmi; H. H. The Khedive Abbas Hilmi

Alexandria, c.1894. Very Good. Notes: A fine portrait of the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, Abbas Hilmi, riding a horse during the late 19th century.
Above the portrait is a decorative rendering of the coat of arms of the Egyptian Kingdom. There is also an Arabic title.

Abbas II Hilmi Bey (1874 – 1944) was the last Khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan, ruling from 8 January 1892 to 19 December 1914. In 1914, after Turkey joined the Central Powers in World War I, the nationalist Khedive was removed by the British, then ruling Egypt, in favor of his more pro-British uncle, Hussein Kamel, marking the de facto end of Egypt's four-century era as a province of the Ottoman Empire, which had begun in 1517., Image Size : 449x375 (mm), 17.68x14.76 (Inches), Platemark Size : , Paper Size : 646x471 (mm), 25.43x18.54 (Inches), Coloring: Hand Colored, Medium: Lithograph, Categories: Views Africa Egypt; Portraits Political;