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Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 24(487)
Title:: [Example of Printing.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:: Two incomplete paragraphs referring to the subject of prisons. Photoglyphic engraving. Print size 46 x 78 mm, press imprint size 66 x 96 mm, paper size 149 x 217 mm.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: After 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(3)
Title:: View in the quarries at Hager Silsilis. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 38 1857' in the negative (date partially cropped). Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the rock face in the quarries at Gebel el-Silsila, with the entrance to a rock-cut temple and a large inscribed tablet carved in a massive boulder in the fo...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4625(22)
Title:: The Temple of Goorneh, Thebes. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View of two massive columns on the left side of the portico of the Temple of Sethos or Seti I at Qurna, showing the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the face of the wall behind: 'This temple is, exteriorly, one of the l...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4625(34)
Title:: Sculptured gateway, etc., Karnac. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the south, looking towards the propylon decorated with hieroglyphics, of the Temple of Khons at Karnak, with part of the avenue of headless sphinxes in the foreground. Beyond is the pylon of the temple and...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.507(6)
Title:: (a) Silver missal cover of pierce work. Lent by the Honourable Major Baring. (b) Book slide of wood, with carved and engraved ivory. Exhibited by Ganugula Chinna Virama, Vizagapatam, Madras. Value Rs. 50. (Certificate of honourable mention awarded). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Exhibited at the Native Fine and Industrial Arts Exhibition, Simla, 1881.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.507(50)
Title:: Book cover (interior) of stamped and embossed leather; gold on red and black ground. Made in the Palace at Ulwar. (Certificate of honourable mention awarded.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Exhibited at the Native Fine and Industrial Arts Exhibition, Simla, 1881.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1881
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: X.507(51)
Title:: Book cover (interior) of stamped and embossed leather, with gilt, red and blue ornament. Made in the Palace at Ulwar. (Certificate of honourable mention awarded.) Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Exhibited at the Native Fine and Industrial Arts Exhibition, Simla, 1881.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1881
Extent:: 1 item

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