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Sculptures from the Outer Wall, Dendera

1857 (published 1862)
19th century
152 x 230 mm (6 x 9.1 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: “SCULPTURES FROM THE OUTER WALL / Dendera.”; printed on mount, lower right below image: “Frith, Photo.”; inscribed in pencil, lower left corner: “36”; inscribed on negative in image, lower left corner: “Frith E No 13 1857”
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 18.
Credit Line: Gift of Weston and Mary Naef in honor of Ella Dawes Naef, class of 2002, 2010
Accession Number: 2010.15.11

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Africa*, architecture*, Dandarah*, Egypt*, sculpture*, travel photography
  • 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.]
  • Dandarah - TGN 7033014
  • Egypt - TGN 7016833
  • sculpture - Use for works of art in which images and forms are carried out primarily in three dimensions, especially those that retain the quality of being tangible objects or groups of objects. As works become more diffused in space or time, or less tangi
  • travel photography

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

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