Subject: Cliffs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(32)
Title:: Khan Minyeh, the reputed site if Ancient Capernaum. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Ancient Capernaum. April 21/62. 83. F. Bedford.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards river and cliffs.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 21 Apr 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.g.1(33)
Title:: Banias. The upper source of the Jordan, and Chapel of St. George. Photographer: Bedford, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in the negative, 'Banias.' Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the course of the river, with the double-arched entrance to the Chapel of St George set into the cliffs above.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10095.g.34(18)
Title:: Buildings and rocks near the temple of Dayr-el-Bahree — Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking towards the sheer cliffs at Deir el-Bahri, with ruins in the foreground. Stereoscopic pair.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1859-1860
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10370.cc.35, 4(12)
Title:: Glen Ey. Photographer: Wilson, George Washington
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the valley of the Ey Water, two miles south of Inverey.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1866
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10370.cc.35, 8(2)
Title:: Colonnade of basaltic pillars, Staffa. Photographer: Wilson, George Washington
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the waterline, showing the cliffs composed of basaltic pillars.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1867
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74790(84)
Title:: 'La Saisiaz.' La Salève, overlooking the Arve and Rhone Valley. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a ridge on Mont Salève, with the River Arve in the valley below and the Jura Mountains visible on the skyline in the distance. A chateau stands at the edge of the mountainside overlooking the Arve.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 74790(85)
Title:: 'La Saisiaz.' La Salève (nr. Geneva). Path up the Salève (the Arve river on the left). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking up the mountain path towards sheer cliffs overlooking the River Arve: 'Browning in the opening lines of 'La Saisiaz' tells how after Miss Smith's death he had climbed the mountain alone, which they were to have ascended together.'
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1880s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: C.43.i.7(21)
Title:: Gorge of Gondo, Switzerland. Photographer: Coghill, Joscelyn
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the sheer-sided ravine, with the road running beside the river at it bottom. Technical note: 'Taken on collodion, September 5, 1855, weather changeable; exposure one minute; developed with pyrogallic acid. Lens by F. S. Archer; focal length nine i...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 6 Sep 1855
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cup.409.b.11(7)
Title:: The Cliffs of the Huang-Mao Hsia. (Yellow Cat Gorge.) Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View across the river towards the cliffs, with a junk sailing up-river.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1925
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Cup.409.b.11(21)
Title:: Hung-Chuan. (‘Red Boats’ — the life-boats of the Yangtze). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View of two lifeboat junks with striped sails on the river, with cliffs to the right: ‘The life-boat service of the upper river was organised in the Ch’ing dynasty … Since the inauguration of the Republic, the continual internecine strife...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1925
Extent:: 1 item

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