Upper Egypt and Ethiopia. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
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Imprint: William Mackenzie Paternoster Row, London, Glasgow & Edinburgh [n.d. 1863]. Folio, quarter leather and red cloth boards, measuring 425 x 310 mm, containing 19 albumen print views mounted one to a page (verso), with extensive letterpress descriptions of each image. The contents pag...
An encampment in Ethiopia [titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography Title page illustration, showing a campsite in the northern Sudan, with camels resting in front of a clump of palm trees.
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 39 1857' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Frontispiece. View looking along the south face of the pylon gateway of the Temple of Horus at Edfu, from the south-west, showing bas-relief carving. A small part of the peristyle court beyond can be ...
View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 38 1857' in the negative (date partially cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the rock face in the quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, with the entrance to a rock-cut temple and a large inscribed tablet carved in a massive boulder in the fo...
The Temple of Koum Ombos, from the north east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography General view looking towards the ruins of the double temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo, with the Nile visible in the right background.
Koum Ombo — near view. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view from the west of the upper, unburied portion of the columns fronting the outer hypostyle hall of the Temple of Sobek and Haroeris at Kom Ombo, with Arab figures posed in the foreground.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Nile riverbank at Aswan, with local craft beached in the foreground: 'The view is taken from the top of the hills opposite to Elephantine, but looking north. The town lies almost hid in a luxuriant grove of date palms; a long line of native tr...
The approach to Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the island of Biga, looking south-eastwards across the river towards the Temple of Isis, with the boulders of the near bank dominating the foreground: 'This is one of the few views which a photograph can r...
Pharoah's Bed, Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 27' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the riverbank, looking in a south-easterly direction towards the Kiosk of Trajan, the hypaethral temple more commonly known in the 19th century as Pharoah's Bed, with a boat moored at the riversi...
View from Philae, looking north. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the boulder-strewn course of the Nile, towards the First Cataract in the distance, with ruins in the foreground.