Tombs in the Southern Cemetery, Cairo, fourth view. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 77' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography Described as 'third view' in list of plates, and 'fourth view' on image mount. 'This view is taken among the groups of tombs and mosques given in a previous photograph. The spectator is, in this instance, ...
View of Boolak [Bulaq, Cairo]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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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...
Study of prickly pear orchard and camels, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 150' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a group of baggage camels and keepers in a cactus grove: 'In the outskirts of Cairo, especially on the north, there are large thickets of the cactus which produces the prickly pear. We rarely, however, have s...
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the Sphinx at Giza from the east, with the Pyramid of Chephren (Khafra) beyond: 'The view, although taken from the point at which it is most difficult to gain the true expression of the face, is eminently su...
Geezeh, the Great Pyramid, from the plain. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 159' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south, looking across the sands toward the Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), with figures posed among the group of trees in the foreground: 'The point from which this view is taken is distant not much les...
Gezzeh, the Second Pyramid, from the south-east. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 153' in the negative, and 'Frith. Photo. 1857.' on mount. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the Pyramid of Chephren (Khafra): 'This is, perhaps, the most beautiful of the views of the Pyramids in this series. The distance and size of the chief mo...
Geezeh, rock-tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 72' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the south face of the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu (also known as Belzoni's Pyramid), with figures grouped near the entrance to the rock-cut tombs in the foreground.
Southern brick pyramid of Dahshoor, from the west. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 155' in the negative, and 'Frith. Photo. 1857.' on mount beneath print. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking across the sands towards the ruinous brick Pyramid of Amenamhat III, a 'tower-like heap rising from a mound of fragments.' With figures posed in the...
Southern stone pyramid of Dahshoor, from the south-west. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 160' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking across the sands towards the southern, 'bent,' Pyramid of Sneferu, at Dahshur, known as such because of the very apparent change of angle between the upper and lower parts of the structure. With fig...
Sinai and Palestine. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
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Imprint: London: William Mackenzie, 22 Paternoster Row; Glasgow, and Edinburgh [n.d. 1863]. Blue folio buckram volume (modern binding dated 31 March 1978) measuring 432 x 323 mm and containing 18 albumen print views of Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Nablus, Nazareth, Tiberia, Baniyas, Damascus and B...