A bird stands in its nest atop a set of crumbling stone arches. This qubba (قبة, Arabic for “dome”), built in the late 13th century, commemorates Abu Ishaq El-Tayyar, a Sufi holy man who was significant in northwestern Algeria at the time of this building’s construction. By focusing on ruins partially reclaimed by plant and animal life, the artist casts Arab life and Islam in Algeria as romantic, but of the past. This print presents the qubba in isolation, though today it sits beside a road in the city of Tlemcen. Gabrielle-Marie Niel traveled to Algeria in the 1870s, a rare endeavor for a woman artist in the 19th century. French travel guides published around the time of her visit highlighted this qubba as a tourist destination.