Francis Frith / Entrance to the Great Temple, Abou Simbel, Nubia / ca. 1857

Francis Frith
Entrance to the Great Temple, Abou Simbel, 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: Entrance to the Great Temple, Abou Simbel, Nubia
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Creation Start Date: 1856
Creation End Date: 1857
Creation Date: ca. 1857
Creation Place: Egypt, Abu Simbel
Object Type: Photographs
Materials and Techniques: albumen print
Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 cm.
Inscriptions: recto-(in picture) "Frith" lower right corner
AMICA Contributor: George Eastman House
Owner Location: Rochester, New York, USA
ID Number: 76:0281:0030
Credit Line: Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Rights: http://www.geh.org/rights.html
Subject Terms: architecture, cave dwellings
Subject Terms: sculpture, colossi
Subject Terms: sculpture, hieroglyphs
Related Document Description: Bull, Deborah & Lorimer, Donald. --Up The Nile: A Photographic Excursion: Egypt 1839-1898.-- New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1979. p. 126.
Related Document Description: Van Haaften, Julia. --Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs.-- New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. pl. 52.
AMICA ID: GEH_.76:0281:0030
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright George Eastman House

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