Félix Bonfils (1831 – 1885) TOMB OF THE KINGS, THE WAILING WALL AND HISHAM'S PALACE, KHIRBET AL-MAFJAR (?), c.1870-1878, albumen prints, (3) image sizes 284mm x 222mm, mounted to loose album leaves, with titles lower margin, signed and numbered in negative, together with further albumen prints (2), BETHLEHEM, HERODS PALACE numbered in negative, total (5) Félix worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined General d’Hautpoul’s expedition to the Levant. Soon after returning from Lebanon he became a photographer. Bonfils took photographs in Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Greece and Constantinople. He was also amongst the first photographers to employ the new technique of Photochrom, a photographic colour printing technique, developed in the 1880s.