Plat ovale en grisaille. Émail de Limoges de Pierre Reymond. Photographer: Vidal, Léon
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Coloured (photochrome) view of the oval Limoges enamel platter, with central image representing Abraham refusing the gifts of the King of Sodom. The same plate is also seen in the preceding volume, print 13.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Coloured (photochrome) view of a statuette of Victory, seated on horseback. See print 14 of the preceding volume for another copy of this photograph, but with considerably different colouring.
L'Aigle de l'Abbé Suger. Photographer: Vidal, Léon
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Oval image. Coloured (photochrome) view of the porphyry pot, incorporated as the body of an eagle. For another copy of the same image, see preceding volume, print 15.
Egypt, Sinai and Palestine. By F. Frith. Supplementary volume. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
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Imprint: William Mackenzie. Paternoster Row, London and Glasgow & Edinburgh [n.d. 1863]. Blue folio buckram volume (modern binding, dated 31 Mar 1978), measuring 430 x 318 mm, and containing 16 albumen print views of Cairo, Giza and Dahshur, with descriptive letterpress. The work, original...
Cairo, from the Citadel, and Mosque of the Sultan Hassan. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 84' in the negative; also inscribed 'No. 11.' Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the Citadel, looking westwards towards the Mosque of Sultan Hasan: 'The principal object is the great Mosque of the Sultan Hasan. Between this and the buildings in t...
Turkish summer costume [Titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length self-portrait of Francis Frith, dressed in oritental costume, seated on a divan and holding a long Turkish smoking pipe or chibouk, probably photographed in London; mounted on titlepage This is one of at least four different self-portraits in eastern dres...
Cairo, tombs in the Southern Cemetery, second view. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 80' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of domed tombs and smaller graves in the cemetery: 'The sepulchral mosques and burial-ground in this view are included in another photograph, as is also the dome on the right, and the minaret beh...
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 81' in the negative, and 'Frith. Photo. 1857' on mount. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'Without any especial object of historical interest, the accompanying view is exceedingly instructive, as illustrative of the picturesque ruins of Cairo. With the e...
The Mosque of the Sultan Barkook, Eastern Cemetery, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 148' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Mosque of Barkuk, with figures posed (on foot and on horseback) around the domed tomb in the foreground.