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Pharoah’s Bed, Island of Phylæ


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Pharoah’s Bed, Island of Phylæ

1857 (published 1862)
19th century
161 x 230 mm (6.3 x 9.1 in.)

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

Alternative title: Pharoah’s Bed, Island of Phylae
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: “PHAROAH’S BED / island of Phylæ”; printed on mount, lower right below image: “Frith, Photo. 1857”; inscribed in pencil on mount, lower left corner: “46”; inscribed on negative in image, lower left corner: “Frith”
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); Jon Manchip White, Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs: 77 Views by Francis Frith (New York: Dover, 1980), compare with plate 43.
Credit Line: Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2010
Accession Number: 2010.15.15

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This object has the following keywords:
  • 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.]
  • Egypt - TGN 7016833
  • travel photography

Dimensions
  • image Dimensions: 161 x 230 mm (6.3 x 9.1 in.)

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