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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Wf1/4624 Subject Architectural Types Level [40] File

1. 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

2. 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

3. Wf1/4624(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(4)
Title:
Tombs in the Southern Cemetery. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

4. 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

5. 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

6. Wf1/4624(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(8)
Title:
The Mosque of Kaitbey, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

7. 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

8. 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:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

9. Wf1/4624(16)

Reference (shelfmark):
Wf1/4624(16)
Title:
Portico of the Temple of Dendera. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1857
Extent:
1 item

10. 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