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Tombs in the Southern Cemetery, Cairo, Fourth View

published 1862
19th century
159 x 213 mm (6.3 x 8.4 in.)

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

Object Type: photograph
Medium and Support: Albumen print on photographic paper mounted on lightweight board with gilded edges in bound volume
Series: from Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine
Edition: As published in the album "Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine: Supplementary Volume” (London: William Mackenzie), 1862
Marks: Printed on mount: “TOMBS IN THE SOUTHERN CEMETERY, / Cairo, Fourth View.”; printed on mount, lower right below image: “Frith, Photo.”; inscribed in pencil, lower left corner: “16”; inscribed on negative in image, lower right corner: “Frith E No 74”
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Collector’s stamp of Weston J. Naef in red on verso of album’s frontispiece
Bibliography: Douglas R. Nickel, Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), compare with plate 18.
Credit Line: Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2010
Accession Number: 2010.15.7

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  • Africa - TGN 7001242
  • 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.]
  • Cairo - TGN 7001215
  • cemeteries
  • death
  • Egypt - TGN 7016833
  • graves - Excavations in the earth used for burial; for constructions raised over or around burial sites, use "tombs." [April 1993 related term added.]
  • travel photography

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  • image Dimensions: 159 x 213 mm (6.3 x 8.4 in.)

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