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, ...
The Mosque of the Emeer Akhor. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the dome and minaret of the mosque: 'The exterior of the Mosque of the Emeer Akhor is presented with such wonderful effect by the truth of photography, that, with the help of a magnifying glass, we fi...
Tombs in the Southern Cemetery. Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'This view is taken on the south-east of the Citadel of Cairo, and the spectator is looking in a north-west direction. Immediately before him is a group of sepulchral mosques and dome-crowned tombs, which stand...
The Mosque of El-Hakim, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the tower and minaret of the ruined Al-Hakim Mosque, with ruined archways and columns in the foreground. The following description is given in Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, 'Cook's handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian Sudan' (London, 1921), p. 169: ...
The Mosque of Kaitbey, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith 165' in the negative. Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the mosque and tomb complex of Qait Bey, looking towards the dome and minaret, with a small flat-domed tomb supported on pillars in the foreground.
Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Caption sub-titled: 'With the Mosque of Mohammad 'Alee, from a cemetery to the south-east, at the foot of the Gebel El-Mukattam.' Distant view of the Citadel, with the Mosque of Muhamad Ali rising prominently a...
Portico of the Temple of Dendera. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View looking along the northern colonnaded façade of the outer hypostyle hall of the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, half-buried in sand, with an Arab figure posed at the base of one of the columns, beside a tent (pres...