Six Photographic Prints by Francis Frith
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A2016.02
name: label: Creator
content: Frith, Francis
place: label: Place
content: Egypt
label: Place
content: Jerusalem
label: Place
content: Thebes (Upper Egypt)
label: Place
content: Gizeh (Egypt)
label: Place
content: Palestine
topic: label: Topic
content: Temples
creator: label: Creator
content: Frith, Francis
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Francis Frith (1822-1898) was one of the pre-eminent travel photographers of his day, contributing greatly to the popularization of travel photography. He also founded Frith & Co., a specialty printing and publishing firm largely devoted to travel photography in a variety of formats, including souvenir postcards and individual prints of scenic views. By employing a team of photographers to supply images for his inventory and purchasing the rights to interesting photos from other photographers and publishing them under the studio's name, Frith soon amassed the largest collection of its kind, with a catalog than ran to almost 700 pages.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Prints (albumen, tipped into album leaves with printed captions on verso)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1857
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased, 2016.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2016.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One flat box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 6 albumen prints, dated 1857 on the negative and on the album page, of Egyptian antiquities and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. All are from a disassembled copy of Frith's publication, "Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and Described by Francis Frith. in Two Volumes" Photograph titles are: Rock Tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid, Gizeh; The Granite Pylon, Thebes; Colossi and Sphynx at Wady Saboua, Nubia; Façade of the Great Temple at Abou Simbel; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 1; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 2.