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South end of the Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
The Colonnade, Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking southwards along the west colonnade of the Temple of Isis, with the Nile in the background and the boulders of the island of Biga beyond.
View on the Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
Palms etc. on Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
Sculptures in the Great Temple, Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
Roman arch on the Island of Biggeh. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
Antiquities upon the Island of Biggeh, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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);...
Philae — from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
Doum palm, and ruined mosque, near Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
Cairo, from the east [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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, ...