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Arab Sportsman and Cook

published 1862
19th century
230 x 152 mm (9.1 x 6 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: “ARAB SPORTSMAN AND COOK.”; printed on mount, lower right below image: “Frith, Photo.”; inscribed in pencil on mount, lower right corner: “48”; inscribed on negative in image, lower left corner: “Frith 162”

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), plate 3.

Credit Line: Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2010

Accession Number: 2010.15.16

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cooks*, double portraits*, genre*, male portraits, portraits*, travel photography, typology*

cooks - Use for those who prepare food for consumption, especially but not exclusively by the use of heat. Includes those who prepare meals and dishes in a private home, public eating place, or institution, or who cook foods as a preparation stage in commercial food processing plants. [September 1993 descriptor added.]
double portraits - Group portraits depicting two individuals. [February 1995 descriptor added.]
genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
male portraits
portraits - Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness; for representations of fictional or mythological characters, use "figures (representations)." [March 1993 lead-in term added. April 1991 descriptor m
travel photography
typology - Generally, the comparative study and analysis of the characteristics of things, including their grouping into classes on the basis of common characteristics; also includes the analysis of the origin and meaning of Biblical types, especially in comparing the Old and New Testaments. [September 1992 scope note changed.]

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image Dimensions: 230 x 152 mm (9.1 x 6 in.)

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Francis Frith, British (English), (1822–1898) . Arab Sportsman and Cook, published 1862. From Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine. Albumen print on photographic paper mounted on lightweight board with gilded edges in bound volume. image : 230 x 152 mm (9.1 x 6 in.). Mount (album sheet) : 435 x 312 mm (17.1 x 12.3 in.). DAC accession number 2010.15.16. Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2010.

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