Material Type: Photographs / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(6)
Title:: Convent of Mar-Saba. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith ---' in the negative (cropped). Genre: Architectural Photography View of the monasteries buildings at Deir Mar Saba, with the ravine of the Kidron River beyond: 'The magnificently wild and and deep ravine forms a sternly appropriate clinging-place for this old asceti...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(7)
Title:: The northern shore of the Dead Sea. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the shore.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(8)
Title:: Nablous, the 'Sichem' of the Old Testament, and the 'Sychar' of the New. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the rooftops of the 'thriving town of some 10,000 or 12,000 inhabitants, with extensive manufactories of soaps and other articles.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(9)
Title:: Nazareth, from the north-west. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view lookinbg along the hillside towards the houses of Nazareth.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(10)
Title:: The town and lake of Tiberias, from the north. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 129' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the shore of Lake Tiberias, with ruins in the foreground: 'My view is taken from a point immediately above the north-west corner of the town. It embraces a tower of the Roman castle, now partly ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(11)
Title:: Tiberias, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View along the waterfront: 'I judge that the waters of the lake have encroached considerably upon the Roman town of Tiberias, or else that the sea-wall has crumbled away, leaving the towers or bastions only standing far out into the water. From one of thes...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(12)
Title:: Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 137' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of ruined houses at Baniyas, 'situated about midway on the road usually taken by travellers between Tiberias and Damascus.'
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(13)
Title:: St Paul's Wall, Damascus. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 131' in the negative Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall and the road running alongside it: 'The subject of the present picture is the traditional site of St Paul's midnight adventure — the suppository part of the wall from whic...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(14)
Title:: Distant view of Damascus, from Salihiyeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 140' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Distant view of the city, with unidentified ruins in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(15)
Title:: Baalbec, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 1--' in the negative (cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking across fields towards the six standing columns of the south peristasis of the Temple of Jupiter Heliopolitanus.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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