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Convent of Mar-Saba

published 1862
19th century
164 x 215 mm (6.5 x 8.5 in.)

Francis Frith, British (English), (1822–1898)

Object Type: photograph

Medium and Support: Albumen print on photographic paper mounted on medium-weight off-white wove paper as sewn leaf in bound volume

Series: from Sinai and Palestine

Edition: As published in the album "Sinai and Palestine" (London: William Mackenzie), 1862

Marks: Printed on mount: “CONVENT OF MAR-SABA.”; inscribed in pencil, lower left corner: “50”; inscribed on negative in image, lower left corner: “Frith P 126”

Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Collector’s stamp of Weston J. Naef in red on verso of the volume’s title page

Bibliography: Douglas R. Nickel, Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004); Jon Manchip White, Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs: 77 Views by Francis Frith (New York: Dover, 1980), plate 67 (with title as “The Monaster of San Saba”).

Credit Line: Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2009

Accession Number: 2009.16.15

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architecture*, convents, religious buildings, travel photography

architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
convents
religious buildings
travel photography

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image Dimensions: 164 x 215 mm (6.5 x 8.5 in.)

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Francis Frith, British (English), (1822–1898) . Convent of Mar-Saba, published 1862. From Sinai and Palestine. Albumen print on photographic paper mounted on medium-weight off-white wove paper as sewn leaf in bound volume. image : 164 x 215 mm (6.5 x 8.5 in.). Mount (album sheet) : 318 x 437 mm (12.5 x 17.2 in.). DAC accession number 2009.16.15. Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2009.

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