Lower Egypt and Thebes. 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 427 x 312 mm, containing 19 albumen prints with accompanying letterpress descriptions. A four-volume edition of small format prints of Frith's Egypti...
Traveller's boat at Ibrim [titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View from the bank of the Nile at Qasr Ibrim, looking across the river towards the hill fort on the far side, with a feluccah moored in the foreground.
Cairo, from the east [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith No. 90' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking over the 'housetops of the chief modern approach to the Citadel. The road, here called the Tebbáneh, runs under the mosque in the centre of the view, and continues beneath the other mosque, ...
The Mosque of the Emeer Akhor. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the dome and minaret of the mosque: 'The exterior of the Mosque of the Emeer Akhor is presented with such wonderful effect by the truth of photography, that, with the help of a magnifying glass, we fi...
Tombs in the Southern Cemetery. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'This view is taken on the south-east of the Citadel of Cairo, and the spectator is looking in a north-west direction. Immediately before him is a group of sepulchral mosques and dome-crowned tombs, which stand...
The Ezbekeeyeh, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Street scene, showing Egyptian domestic architecture. 'In the north-west corner of the city is a large irregular tract, called the 'El-Ezbekeeyah,' of 'Birket El-Ezbekeeyah,' named after the Emeer El-Ezbekee. It is nearly half a mile long, and about a thir...
The Mosque of El-Hakim, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower and minaret of the ruined Al-Hakim Mosque, with ruined archways and columns in the foreground. The following description is given in Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, 'Cook's handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan' (London, 1921), p. 169: ...
The Bab el-Azab, Citadel, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 151' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking towards the gateway, flanked by fortified towers, with horses and a tent in the foreground: 'The Bab El-'Azab, so called because it is in the lower circuit of the Citadel, or the circuit of the...
The Mosque of Kaitbey, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 165' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque and tomb complex of Qait Bey, looking towards the dome and minaret, with a small flat-domed tomb supported on pillars in the foreground.
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Caption sub-titled: 'With the Mosque of Mohammad 'Alee, from a cemetery to the south-east, at the foot of the Gebel El-Mukattam.' Distant view of the Citadel, with the Mosque of Muhamad Ali rising prominently a...