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Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(12)
Title:: View on the Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking northwards along the approach to the Temple of Isis, with the first pylon partly obscured by the building in the foreground, and a section of the west colonnade on the left: 'This picture is a specimen of the character of the masses of ruin, and of...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(13)
Title:: Palms etc. on Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the hypaethral temple called by Frith 'Pharoah's Bed' (more generally known as the Kiosk of Trajan), with a grove of palm trees and a campsite in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(14)
Title:: Sculptures in the Great Temple, Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography close view of a section of the exterior façade the first pylon of the Temple of Isis, showing bas-relief carving, with three figures posed at the base to indicate scale.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(15)
Title:: Roman arch on the Island of Biggeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking through the archway, part of the temple ruins on the island of Biga, which frames a view of the pylon of the Temple of Isis on the island of Philae in the distance. A small part of the Kiosk of Trajan c...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(16)
Title:: Antiquities upon the Island of Biggeh, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 33' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of ruins and modern dwellings, among the boulder-strewn landscape of the island of Biga, near Philae: 'Most travellers climb to the edge of the rocks overhanging the village (vide photograph);...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(18)
Title:: Philae — from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the river towards the island of Philae and the Temple of Isis in the distance.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(19)
Title:: Doum palm, and ruined mosque, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View from below, looking towards the mosque, with figures seated in the shade beneath a clump of palms in the foreground: 'With reference to my picture I may observe, that the ruin is that of an old mosque, near the Island of Philae, and perhaps almost the only vest...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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

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

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

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