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.