Francis Frith / The Temple of Wady Kardassy, Nubia / ca. 1857

Francis Frith
The Temple of Wady Kardassy, Nubia
ca. 1857
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Creator Name: Frith, Francis
Creator Nationality: European; British; English
Gender: M
Creator Birth Place: England, Chesterfield
Creator Death Place: France, Cannes
Creator Name-CRT: Francis Frith
Title: The Temple of Wady Kardassy, Nubia
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Creation Start Date: 1856
Creation End Date: 1857
Creation Date: ca. 1857
Creation Place: Egypt, Wady Kardassy
Object Type: Photographs
Materials and Techniques: albumen print
Dimensions: 16.6 x 22.9 cm.
Inscriptions: recto-(in picture) "Frith E no 19 1857" lower right corner
AMICA Contributor: George Eastman House
Owner Location: Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number: 76:0281:0021
Credit Line: Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Rights: http://www.geh.org/rights.html
Subject Terms: architecture, temples
Subject Terms: landscape, riverbanks
Related Document Description: Van Haaften, Julia. --Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. pl. 46.
Related Document Description: Simoen, Jean-Claude. --Egypte Eternelle: Les Voyageurs Photographes au Siecle Dernier.-- Paris: Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, 1993. p. 123.
AMICA ID: GEH_.76:0281:0021
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright George Eastman House

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