The Circular Temple, Baalbec. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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
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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
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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...