Tiberias, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along the waterfront: 'I judge that the waters of the lake have encroached considerably upon the Roman town of Tiberias, or else that the sea-wall has crumbled away, leaving the towers or bastions only standing far out into the water. From one of thes...
Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 137' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of ruined houses at Baniyas, 'situated about midway on the road usually taken by travellers between Tiberias and Damascus.'
St Paul's Wall, Damascus. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 131' in the negative Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall and the road running alongside it: 'The subject of the present picture is the traditional site of St Paul's midnight adventure — the suppository part of the wall from whic...
Distant view of Damascus, from Salihiyeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 140' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Distant view of the city, with unidentified ruins in the foreground.
Baalbec, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 1--' in the negative (cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking across fields towards the six standing columns of the south peristasis of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus.
The Great Pillars and smaller temple, Baalbac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 143' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of the pillars of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, with the Temple of Bacchus beyond.
The Circular Temple, Baalbec. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 141' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the ruins of the Temple of Venus at Baalbek: 'The little gem known as the 'Circular Temple' stands at the distance of about a quarter of a mile from the great structures. My view will show that it was...
The largest of the cedars, Mount Lebanon. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 146' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of one of the massive cedars of Lebanon: 'The day which I spent at the Cedars was one of the most delightful that I ever enjoyed. The delicious temperature of this elevation, the songs of the nightingales whi...
Upper Egypt and Ethiopia. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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
Scope & Content:
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.