Francis Frith - Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago London Monday, November 17, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Anonymous Gift, 1972

  • Literature

    Lunn, Francis Frith's Egypt and the Holy land: The pioneering photographic expeditions to the Middle East, pp. 2, 33, 84, 87, 91, 93, 97, 107, 111, 128-129, 131-133, 136, 138, 143
    Nickel, Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian photographer abroad, pls. 15, 52, 56, 85
    Talbot, Francis Frith, n.p.

  • Catalogue Essay

    Titles include: Interior Court of Medinet Haboo, Thebes, 1857; The Court of Shishak, Karnac, 1857; The Colonnade, Island of Philae, circa 1857; Portico of The Temple of Dendera, 1857; Sculptured Gateway &c. Karnac, 1857; Pharaoh’s Bed, Island of Philae, 1857; View From Philae, Looking North, 1857; View at Luxor, 1857; South End of the Island of Philae, 1857; The Broken Obelisk, Karnac, 1857; Pillars in the Great Hall, Karnac, circa 1857; Koum Ombo, Near View, circa 1857; Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, 1857; The Pyramids of Sakkarah, from the North East, 1857; The Granite Pylon, Karnac, circa 1857; Obelisk and Granite Lotus Column, Karnac, 1857

    The photographs offered here were all taken circa 1857 and most (perhaps all) were printed in 1862 for Frith’s three-volume album, Egypt, Palestine and Nubia. That album reprised many images from an earlier album that was published in 1857 under the title Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described.

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Selected Images of Egypt, Palestine and Nubia

circa 1857
Sixteen albumen prints.
Each approximately 16 x 22.9 cm (6 1/4 x 9 in.) or the reverse.
Each signed, variously numbered and dated in the negative; each with printed credit and title on the mount.

Estimate
£2,500 - 3,500 

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Photographs
London
+ 44 207 318 4018

Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

London 18 November 2014 2pm