Francis Frith

'The Pyramids of Dahshoor from the South West'

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October 5, 02:57 PM GMT

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Francis Frith

1822 - 1898

'The Pyramids of Dahshoor from the South West'

mammoth-plate albumen print, signed and dated in the negative, mounted, letterpress credit, title, and date '1857' on the mount, framed, 1858

image: 15 ½ by 19 ⅛ in. (39.4 by 48.6 cm.)

frame: 21 ½ by 30 ⅝ in. (54.6 by 77.8 cm.)

Douglas R. Nickel, Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad (Princeton, 2004), pl. 80

Washington, D. C., The Phillips Collection, Picturing the Sublime: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection, October 2012 - January 2013