Albums by Francis Frith

280 x 155 mm. A view looking along the bare landscape of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, with donkeys standing in the road in the foreground. Frith comments: 'they are situated at a distance of five or six miles from the river, at the extremity of a deep and romantic gorge in the mountains. The entire course of this ravine presents a spectacle of desolate grandeur, which is in the highest degree impressive ... There is not a blade of grass, nor a sign of life except when a solitary vulture wheels overhead, or a jackal is seen stealing among the hot loose stones. An artificial road has been cut in the bottom of the gorge - this is represented in my view, which is taken from a spot near the termination of the valley, where the tombs commence.'

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