Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a narrow street lined with balconied houses, towards minarets in the background: 'The street in this view gives an idea of the repose of Eastern life in the Muslim quarters, undisturbed by association with the bustling, anxious European ...
The Great Pyramid, and the Sphinx. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south, looking towards the Great Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu) at Giza, with the Sphinx in the right foreground.
The Pyramids of El-Geezeh, from the south-west. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the three Great Pyramids at Giza: the Pyrmaid of Menkaura on the left, Chephren (Khafra) in the centre and Cheops (Khufu) on the right.
The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the north-east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 185' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the step-pyramid of Djoser, with a smaller, rubble-built Pyramid of Userkaf in the foreground (to the north-east). Frith's text draws attention to the human skull lying on the sand in the fo...
The Pyramids of Dahshoor, from the east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 156' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the Pyramid of Amenemhat III (in ruinous condition), with the south (bent) pyramid of Sneferu, in the distance beyond: 'In this view the principal object is the Southern Brick Pyramid of Dah...
The Nile, from the quarries of Toura. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the Nile, with excavated mounds of rock of the in the foreground: 'We are twelve miles from Cairo. Our 'ark' is moored at the village of Toura, a name which is probably derived from that of the ancie...
Portico of the Temple of Dendera. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the northern colonnaded façade of the outer hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, half-buried in sand, with an Arab figure posed at the base of one of the columns, beside a tent (pres...
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of standing columns and temple ruins at Armant, a few miles south of Thebes. Most of the temples remains at Armant were destroyed in the course of the 19th century,
The Statues of Memnon, Plain of Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south of the Colossi of Memnon on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. The two quartzite statues are representations of Amenhotep III.