Name of Object:

Tunisian Coffee Shop at the Trocadero [Paris Exhibition, 1878]

Name in original language:

Il caffè tunisino sul Trocadero

Location:

Rome, Italy

Holding Institution:

National Central Library

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Holding Institution (original language):

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale

Date of Object:

1878

Description:

A half circular hall arranged as an Oriental coffee shop with a Tunisian orchestra of four musicians playing typical instruments. The instruments played are a lute, a type of violin used in the Middle Ages, a little drum decorated like a cymbal and a derbuka, which is a terracotta drum shaped like a particular vase.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

L'Esposizione di Parigi del 1878 illustrata, Sonzogno Editore, 1878, p. 73

Additional Copyright Information:

Copyright image: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Roma.

Citation of this web page:

Marina Minozzi "Tunisian Coffee Shop at the Trocadero [Paris Exhibition, 1878]" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;209;en

Prepared by: Marina Minozzi
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT2 067