Sceilig Mhichil. St. Michael's Rock, County of Kerry. Photographer: Mercer
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Genre: Landscape Photography Panoramic view, composed of two prints, looking along the cliff of Great Skellig, with the walled pathway running along its face.
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the monastery and other buildings, perched on the mountainside over looking the cliffs: 'July 18th...The fort, monastery, and village of Dhunkur are most picturesquely situated on a bluff of conglomerate limestone, which is connected with the uplands by a na...
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the gorge of the Banganga river, towards Kangra Fort, perched on the summit of the cliffs on the right.
West point of North Island, Chincha Islands. Photographer: Moulton, Henry
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Genre: Industrial Photography View looking along the cliffs, with boats moored at the foot of the chute used for transferring the guano to the lighters. See also prints 57 and 66.
Genre: Archaeological Photography A faded view, looking along the valley towards the ruins of the Temple of Thutmose IV at Thebes and the sheer cliff face beyond: 'A Temple situated immediately at the base of the Western Hills [of Thebes], and in great measure excavated in one of them. It is no...
Genre: Landscape Photography View across the Nile at Qasr Ibrim, looking towards the cliff rising from the far bank, where a dahabieh is moored: 'Ibreem is a rugged rocky hill about 600 feet high, which encroaches upon and literally overhangs the river. Its base on all sides is literally honeyc...
Le Trou Perdu, Via Mala, Switzerland. Photographer: Braun, Jean Adolphe
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the sheer gorge of the Hinterrhein River on the route between Thusis and Zilla, with the road clinging to the cliffside and entering the tunnel in the right foreground. With accompanying letterpress by Francis Young: 'So deep was the rift here, and so pre...