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Wf1/4624(2)
- Record Id:
- 040-003302690
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003302688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028276000.0x001585
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Wf1/4624(2)
- Title:
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Cairo, from the east [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
- Scope & Content:
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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, which is seen, apparently, in the foreground on the left, but is really several hundred yards distant. The street-view, given in the earlier part of this series [at shelfmark Wf1/4620, print 4], was taken in the street beneath the first-mentioned mosque, and on referring to that view, the reader will perceive the minaret of the other, and part of the walls of the mosque belonging to it, a short distance up the street...'
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003302688
040-003302690 - Is part of:
- Wf1/4624 : Lower Egypt and Thebes. By F. Frith. Photographer(s): Frith, Francis
Wf1/4624(2) : Cairo, from the east [frontispiece]. Photographer: Frith, Francis - Hierarchy:
- 032-003302688[0002]/040-003302690
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Wf1/4624
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Techniques:
- Albumen Print
Photograph
Photographic Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print - Start Date:
- 1857
- End Date:
- 1858
- Date Range:
- c 1857
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 161 mm x 219 mm
Format: Printed Book
Secondary Support: Card
- Former External References:
- 90
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Frith, Francis, 1822-1898
- Subjects:
- Architectural Styles
Architectural Types
Architecture
Dwellings
Houses
Islamic Architecture
Mosques
Religious Buildings - Places:
- Cairo, Egypt