Wearing white silk, a young girl carries an Ottoman silver coffee service as she gazes back at the viewer. 👍;Dressed in the Ottoman style, it is likely she was one of the many foreigners living in Cairo, a fast-growing city under Ottoman rule wi꧟th a mixed population of Muslims, Copts, Europeans and Armenians.

In 1858 Carl Haag embarked on his first trip to Cairo via Greꦗece, Smyrna and Syria. Arriving in Egypt, he shared a house in Cairo with his friend and fellow artist Frederick Goodall whom he had met in London the year before.