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51. Talbot Photo 24(1457)

Reference (shelfmark):
Talbot Photo 24(1457)
Title:
[View of Edinburgh from Calton Hill.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of the Edinburgh Old Town with the Castle on the right and Hamilton's Obelisk on the left, the paper has been cropped to omit the three test patches, which were originally placed in a vertical line to the right of the main image. Photoglyphic engravin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

52. WD1314

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1314
Title:
Obelisk at Axum (Abyssinia). September or October, 1805. Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
Scope & Content:
Obelisk at Axum (Abyssinia). September or October, 1805. Wash; 16.75 by 23.5 ins. Note: Drawing for 'The Obelisk at Axum', plate 20, ‘Views.’ Described Valentia, iii, 94, 179.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
1 Item

53. WD1315

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1315
Title:
Obelisk at Axum (Abyssinia). September or October 1803. Artist(s): Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
Scope & Content:
Obelisk at Axum (Abyssinia). September or October 1803. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Obelisk at Axum.’ Pen-and-ink; 18 by 13.75 ins. Note: Sketch for Valentia, iii, plate 7, ‘Obelisk at Axum'. Described Valentia, iii, 94, 179.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1803
Extent:
1 Item

54. WD3733

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3733
Title:
Tall slender obelisk in a rocky landscape. Artist(s): Cheney, Edward (1803-1884)
Scope & Content:
Tall slender obelisk in a rocky landscape. Inscribed: ‘Tomb of Amurath the Haughty July 19 1826’. ‘Lonely and comet-like hath been the course of Amurath: High his fame and mightly his deeds: Yet hath Amurath returned to dust: Behold the end of the mighty’. Pen and ink; 16.8 by 26.2 cm. Prese...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1826
Extent:
1 Item

55. Wf1/4625(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4625(28)
Title:
Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the north, looking towards the southern half of the outer pylon of the Temple of Amun-Kamutef at Luxor. The entrance is flanked by the two massive, half-buried images of Rameses II, with the surviving obel...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

56. Wf1/4625(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4625(30)
Title:
Obelisk and Lotus Column, Karnac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith --- 1857' in the negative (cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the granite obelisk, with the base of the lotus column in the left foreground, in the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak: 'Around is a perfect chaos of splendid ruin, amongst which I...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

57. Wf1/4625(32)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4625(32)
Title:
The broken obelisk, Karnac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 46 1857' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the fallen obelisk, with a European and two Arab figures posed in the foreground and the standing obelisk beyond. The Great Hypostyle Hall of the temple can be seen in the background: 'Here is...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

58. Wf1/4625(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4625(36)
Title:
The Court of Shishak, Karnac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 68 1857' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the first court of the Temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, looking eastwards towards the second pylon, with the hypostyle hall and obelisk beyond. In the foreground, among the remains of fallen col...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

59. X123(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
X123(20)
Title:
'The obelisk at Axum'. Plate 20 from Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt', published by William Miller, London, 1809. Artist(s): Havell, Daniell (b.1785) after Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
Scope & Content:
'The obelisk at Axum'. Plate 20 from Henry Salt's 'Twenty Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt', published by William Miller, London, 1809.. Artist(s): Havell, Daniell (b.1785) after Salt, Henry (1780-1827)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 Item

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