Six Photographic Prints by Francis Frith

6 albumen prints, dated 1857 on the negative and on the album page, of Egyptian antiquities and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. All are from a disassembled copy of Frith's publication, "Egypt and Palestine. Photographed and Described by Francis Frith. in Two Volumes" Photograph titles are: Rock Tombs and Belzoni's Pyramid, Gizeh; The Granite Pylon, Thebes; Colossi and Sphynx at Wady Saboua, Nubia; Façade of the Great Temple at Abou Simbel; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 1; Jerusalem, From the Mount of Olives, No. 2.

Francis Frith (1822-1898) was one of the pre-eminent travel photographers of his day, contributing greatly to the popularization of travel photography. He also founded Frith & Co., a specialty printing and publishing firm largely devoted to travel photography in a variety of formats, including souvenir postcards and individual prints of scenic views. By employing a team of photographers to supply images for his inventory and purchasing the rights to interesting photos from other photographers and publishing them under the studio's name, Frith soon amassed the largest collection of its kind, with a catalog than ran to almost 700 pages.

FSA A2016.02

Frith, Francis

Egypt

Jerusalem

Thebes (Upper Egypt)

Gizeh (Egypt)

Palestine

Temples

Box 1

Purchased, 2016.

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Prints

Photographs

Albumen prints

Six Photographic Prints by Francis Frith, FSA A2016.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

One flat box.

Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Photographs

Albumen prints

Collection is open for research.