[Islamic popular image.]

SHE-CAMEL OF SALEH - POPULAR PRINTING IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA Chromolithographed print, image measuring 207 by 286mm, backed onto board (283 x 378mm), printer?s slug under the image; the red flag rubbed, light cockling to the left edge. In good condition and suitable for framing. Tunisia: Al Manar Press, n.d. [but c.1940]. A beautiful Quranic popular image showing the She camel of God (Naqat Allah), sent by god to the people of Thames in Al-Hijr. Collected by both locals and Westerners, the stylistic inspiration for this series of designs appears to be a set of prints published at the Fine Art Press in Cairo in the 1920?s. This evidences the development of Islamic popular printing across the Maghreb. This cataloguer is aware of only a handful of examples of popular Islamic printing in Western institutions. One off these is the Pompidou's holding of a Boneste?ve print purchased by Wassily Kandinsky in Tunisia (AM 81-65-1266). Scarce.