Egypt (nation)
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Albums by Francis Frith
Antiques at Biggeh, opposite Philae, 1857
232 x 153 mm. A view showing the temple ruins in the foreground with the granite formation beyond which looks over the island of Philae. Frith was obviously pleased with this composition: 'Ah, brother Photographers! With a sky like that, and such subjects, and a bottle of splendid pale - not ale - but, collodion, you only can imagine the glory of such a day.'
Assouan [Aswan], 1857
228 x 157 mm. A fine landscape taken from the top of a hill opposite the Isle of Elephantine and looking north along the Nile. Two Europeans stand in the foreground watching the scene below where dhows are moored along the riverbank unloading produce. The town itself is visible on the skyline in the distance.
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment [Armant], 1857
157 x 229 mm. A view showing the ruins of Cleopatra's Temple (about five miles south of Thebes) with an Arab sitting on broken rubble in the foreground.
Cleopatra's Temple at Erment [Armant] near thebes, 1857
211 x 160 mm. A view showing the standing columns of the Temple at Erment (also spelt Armant) with piles of rubbish and a seated figure in the foreground. In his commentary Frith condemns the contemporary prejudice that anything less than three thousand years old is considered 'degenerate', modern - of no interest.
Crocodile on a sand bank, 1857
233 x 156 mm. A view showing a large crocodile (probably dead) on the banks of the Nile in the Philae region.
Doum palm and ruined mosque, Philae, 1857
229 x 164 mm. A pleasing composition looking up towards the ruined mosque and the rocky hillside from the bank of the Nile, with a clump of palms in the foreground.
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume I, 1857
An album of photographs of scenes within Egypt and Palestine.
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume II, 1857
An album of photographs of scenes within Egypt and Palestine.
Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor, 1857
231 x 161 mm. A view showing the massive stone entrance to the temple with carved hieroglyphics over its face and flanked by two monumental statues of Rameses II buried to the shoulders in the sand and the rubble. Beyond the entrance can be seen the tower of a mosque of more recent date.
Koum Ombo, Upper Egypt, 1857
Mount Horeb, Sinai, 1860
227 x 160 mm. A view looking across the rocky plain of Er-Raha towards the triple summits of Mount Horeb.
Mount Serbal, from the Wadee Feyran, 1860
Portico of the temple of Gerf Hossayn, Nubia, 1857
231 x 144 mm. A view showing part of the ruins of the temple of Gerf Hossayn, situated on a hill about 65 miles above the first cataract of the Nile.
Pylon gateway at Medinet Haboo [Habu], 1857
155 x 230 mm. A view showing the massive gateway with sculptured hieroglyphics leading to an inner courtyard at Medinet Haboo, on the western bank of the Nile at Thebes. Frith comments: 'But perhaps nothing will strike the traveller more, as he wanders through these wonderful ruins, than the succession of pylon-gateways, leading from one immense sculptured court to another. The one now represented is, I believe, the third from the entrance.'
Rock tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid, Gizeh [Giza], 1857
230 x 156 mm. A view showing the entrance to a rock tomb in the foreground with a European and two Arabs encamped beside the cave. In the background stands Belzoni's pyramid, the second largest of the pyramids of Gizeh which was entered by Belzoni in 1816.
Sculptures from the outer wall, Dendera, 1857
231 x 160 mm. A view showing a wall of finely carved hieroglyphics on the exterior wall of the temple of Hat-Hor at Dendera. It was from this temple that S.L. Saulnier and J.B. Lelorrain looted the famous zodiac of Dendera.
Sinai and Palestine - Frith, 1860
An album of photographs of scenes within Sinai and Palestine.
Sinaitic inscriptions in Wadee El-Mukattab, 1860
228 x 157 mm. A close up showing inscriptions carved in a rockface at Wadee El-Mukattab.
South edge of the Island of Philae, 1857
235 x 156 mm. A view looking across the Nile towards the riverwall and temples of Philae. Visible behind the wall are part of Pharaoh's Bed and the pylon gateways of the Great Temple.
The approach to Philae, 1857
The broken obelisk, Karnac, 1857
226 x 160 mm. A view showing a European and two Arabs standing among the ruins of Kamac in front of the fallen obelisk. IN the background stand the Hall of Columns and another obelisk.
The Convent of Sinai and Plain of Er-Raha, 1860
The granite pylon, Thebes, 1857
225 x 160 mm. A view showing the ruins of a gateway at Karnac built from large blocks of granite. Frith compares these ruins to the gateway seen in Y30214A/25: '... the present view represents an older, more massive, but less elegant and less elaborately sculptured, edifice which I have called the Granite Pylon, in consequence of its being, as I believe, the only existing extensive pylon-gateway constructed solely of that material.'
The great pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt, 1857
232 x 163 mm. A view showing the massive entrance to the temple of Horus at Edfu, with a group of Europeans standing at the base of the pylon on which are sculpted various scenes. The drifting sand, which in this print reaches to the top of the wall behind the pylon on which are sculpted various scenes, has subsequently been removed to leave a temple in a remarkable state of preservation.