Church of the Ascension, Mount of Olives. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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 ...
The Pool of Hezekiah, Jerusalem. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
The Mosque of Omar, etc., Jerusalem. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.
Pool of Bethseda, the Mosque of Omar, etc., Jerusalem. From the city walls. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
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...
Nablous, the 'Sichem' of the Old Testament, and the 'Sychar' of the New. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.'
Tiberias, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
St Paul's Wall, Damascus. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
Baalbec, from the south. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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.