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1. Wf1/4624

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624
Title:
Lower Egypt and Thebes. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
19 items

2. Wf1/4624(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(5)
Title:
The Ezbekeeyeh, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

3. Wf1/4624(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(10)
Title:
Street view in Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

4. Wf1/4624(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(6)
Title:
The Mosque of El-Hakim, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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: ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

5. Wf1/4624(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(9)
Title:
The Citadel, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

6. Wf1/4624(17)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(17)
Title:
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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,
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

7. Wf1/4624(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(3)
Title:
The Mosque of the Emeer Akhor. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

8. Wf1/4624(18)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(18)
Title:
The Statues of Memnon, Plain of Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

9. Wf1/4624(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(2)
Title:
Cairo, from the east [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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, ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

10. Wf1/4624(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(7)
Title:
The Bab el-Azab, Citadel, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item