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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Wf1/4622 Material Type Photographs Level [40] File

1. Wf1/4622(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(1)
Title:
An encampment in Ethiopia [titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

2. Wf1/4622(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(2)
Title:
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

3. Wf1/4622(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(3)
Title:
View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

4. Wf1/4622(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(4)
Title:
The Temple of Koum Ombos, from the north east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

5. Wf1/4622(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(5)
Title:
Koum Ombo — near view. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

6. Wf1/4622(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(6)
Title:
Assouan. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

7. Wf1/4622(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(7)
Title:
The approach to Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

8. Wf1/4622(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(8)
Title:
Pharoah's Bed, Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 27' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the riverbank, looking in a south-easterly direction towards the Kiosk of Trajan, the hypaethral temple more commonly known in the 19th century as Pharoah's Bed, with a boat moored at the riversi...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

9. Wf1/4622(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(9)
Title:
View from Philae, looking north. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the boulder-strewn course of the Nile, towards the First Cataract in the distance, with ruins in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

10. Wf1/4622(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4622(10)
Title:
South end of the Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the island of Biga, looking northwards across the channel towards Philae, with the colonnades and pylon of the Temple of Isis on the left, and 'Pharoah's Bed' (the Kiosk of Trajan) beyond and to the right.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item