View on the Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking northwards along the approach to the Temple of Isis, with the first pylon partly obscured by the building in the foreground, and a section of the west colonnade on the left: 'This picture is a specimen of the character of the masses of ruin, and of...
Palms etc. on Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the hypaethral temple called by Frith 'Pharoah's Bed' (more generally known as the Kiosk of Trajan), with a grove of palm trees and a campsite in the foreground.
Sculptures in the Great Temple, Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography close view of a section of the exterior façade the first pylon of the Temple of Isis, showing bas-relief carving, with three figures posed at the base to indicate scale.
Roman arch on the Island of Biggeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking through the archway, part of the temple ruins on the island of Biga, which frames a view of the pylon of the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in the distance. A small part of the Kiosk of Trajan c...
Antiquities upon the Island of Biggeh, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 33' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of ruins and modern dwellings, among the boulder-strewn landscape of the island of Biga, near Philae: 'Most travellers climb to the edge of the rocks overhanging the village (vide photograph);...
View from Biggeh — looking south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from the boulder-strewn waterside at Biga, looking south along the Nile. Frith's photographic dark tent can be seen among the rocks in the foreground.
Philae — from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the river towards the island of Philae and the Temple of Isis in the distance.
Doum palm, and ruined mosque, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Landscape Photography View from below, looking towards the mosque, with figures seated in the shade beneath a clump of palms in the foreground: 'With reference to my picture I may observe, that the ruin is that of an old mosque, near the Island of Philae, and perhaps almost the only vest...