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232 x 156 mm. A view from the top of the pylon of the Great Temple and the small temple called Pharaoh's Bed.

Scope and Contents 232 x 159 mm. A view showing the tall and magnificent ruins of the temple with a Nile-boat moored at the left of the print. Frith comments: 'Philae is the most beautiful thing in Egypt; and the temple, absurdly called Pharaoh's Bed, is the most beautiful thing upon the island. I flatter myself, too, somewhat upon the quality of my photograph, - light transparent shadows [always difficult to achieve in the harshness of the Egyptian sun], sweet half-tones, oh discriminating public! It is...

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78 x 78 mm. A view of 'Pharaoh's Bed', a temple on the island of Philae south of Aswan, with the Nile in the foreground.

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78 x 78 mm. A view showing the pylons of the Temple of Isis on Philae, with the Nile in the foreground.

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78 x 78 mm. A distant view of Philae showing the Temple of Isis and 'Pharaoh's Bed'.

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40 x 70 mm.

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130 x 85 mm. Showing a temple.

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140 x 90 mm. A view of the temple form the sea.

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70 x 44 mm.

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221 x 163 mm. A view showing the densely packed columns of the great hall sculptured with hieroglyphics and with an Arab standing in the foreground. Frith comments: 'The effect which the builders appear to have had in view in this remarkable crowding together of enormous columns, is the combined impression of vastness and power - almost of awe - which they produce upon the mind when standing amongst them; and nowhere is this effect attained so perfectly as at Karnac.'

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233 x 153 mm. The wrong photograph has been mounted here, this view being a copy of Y30214A/34 and showing the interior courtyard of Medinet Haboo (Habu).

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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.'

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1 scrap pf paper (from an envelope) prnted 'Souvenir of Upper-Egypt'
1 photo annotated on the verso by AJBW, 'Rosetta Gate, Alexandria, end of 19th century'
5 photos of ancient Egyptian reliefs at Karnak, thr largest print annotated on the verso by AJBW, 'Offerings of Thottmes III to Amun, Above the tops of the obelisks, in a row of offerings, by the gold rimngs, is a lion head rhyton, cf gold one from Shaft Grave, Mycneae'.

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230 x 162 mm. A landscape view of the ruined mosque and its tower in the foreground, the Nile beyond and the Island of Philae in the distance. This view was taken near the village of Mishdd. In his commentary, Frith states: 'The picture being almost an instantaneous one, the waves or ripples upon the river re preserved, although perhaps somewhat at the expense of the deeper shadows.

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231 x 161 mm. A view showing one of the entrance gateways o Karnac at the end of the avenue of recumbent sphinxes, one of which (headless) can be seen in the foreground. The gateway itself is richly sculptured with hieroglyphics. Technically, a fine print, with full detail in the shadows of the gateway.

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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.

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69 x 45 mm. Members of the guard.

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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.

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163 x 114 mm. A view showing one of the boats used to transport troops to Wadi Halfa, moored at Aswan.

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230 x 175 mm. Showing Queen Hatshepsut's temple. The coordinates are given as: 45.N.133.P.

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44 x 70 mm.

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65 x 40 mm.

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140 x 85 mm.

Scope and Contents 232 x 156 mm. A superb landscape showing the rounded forms of granite boulders in the foreground, the Nile beyond the buildings of Philae on the island in the background. Frith himself was well aware of the success of this viewpoint: 'This is one of the few views which a photograph can render without, perhaps, greatly distracting from its artistic frame. Everybody has sketched it - many clever artists have painted it - Murray has engraved it for his 'Guide', and now, in these later days,...

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241 x 193 mm. A view looking down on a section of the Avenue of Sphinxes which leads from the Temple of Mut to the Temple of Amenophis II at Karnac. Erected by Rameses II.