The Cup of Coffee: Two women taking coffee and smoking hubble-bubble, pub. 1865. Creator: Amadeo Preziosi (1816-82).

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The Cup of Coffee: Two women taking coffee and smoking hubble-bubble, with a black African woman slave, from 'Stamboul, Souvenir de l'Orient', published 1865 (colour litho). Count Amadeo Preziosi (1816-1882) was a Maltese painter known for his watercolours and prints of the Balkans, Ottoman Empire and Romania; 'Stamboul, Souvenir d'Orient' was first published in Paris 1865.

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