Subject: Architectural Types / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4620(9)
Title:: View of Boolak [Bulaq, Cairo]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith. Photo.' on mount beneath print. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'Concealed behind the mound in the foreground of this view is one of the entrances to Boolak from Cairo, of which city it is the principal port. The only mosque in this view is of modern date, as...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(1)
Title:: Church of the Ascension, Mount of Olives. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith 193' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the hillside towards the minaret of the Mosque of the Ascension: 'The view is taken from the western slope of the mount, at some distance above the valley. Before us is a small Arab village around ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(2)
Title:: The Pool of Hezekiah, Jerusalem. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 117' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the pool, towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre beyond.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(3)
Title:: The Mosque of Omar, etc., Jerusalem. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith P. 108' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the city wall towards the Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra), with the Minaret of the Chain to the left.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4621(4)
Title:: Pool of Bethseda, the Mosque of Omar, etc., Jerusalem. From the city walls. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography 'This view is taken from a point upon the walls very near to St Stephen's Gate. It embraces the deep wall of the Pool of Bethseda, the Mosques of Omar [Dome of the Rock] and Aksa, the minaret from which the muezzin, or call to prayers, is proclaimed, and (on the...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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(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(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(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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