| RCS/Y30214A-C contains: |
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| Y30214A |
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume I |
| Y30214B |
Egypt and Palestine - Frith - Volume II |
| Y30214C |
Sinai and Palestine - Frith |
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Albums by Francis Frith
| Title |
Sinai and Palestine - Frith |
| Reference |
Y30214C |
| Creator |
Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer |
| Covering Dates |
circa 1860 |
| Extent and Medium |
37 images in 1 album; Handle with care, album pages loose and fragile. Album cover itself is unattached. Photographs in good condition. |
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| Content and context |
An album of photographs of scenes within Sinai and Palestine. |
| Further information |
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Indexed
This collection is available on microfiche: Middle East, fiche number 16-18.
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| Index Terms |
| Africa |
| Asia |
| Dead Sea |
| Egypt |
| Gaza Strip |
| Israel |
| Lebanon |
| Palestine |
| Syria |
| West Bank |
| Frith, Francis (1822-1898) photographer |
| RCS/Y30214A-C/Y30214C contains: |
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The street called Straight, Damascus. 114 x 142 mm. A view looking through the eastern gate and along the cobbled street, with ramshackle houses lining the way.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Mount Horeb, Sinai. 227 x 160 mm. A view looking across the rocky plain of Er-Raha towards the triple summits of Mount Horeb.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Mount Serbal, from the Wadee Feyran. 227 x 159 mm. A view from the north looking towards the rocky summit of Mount Serbal, with a valley floor and a gnarled tree which, according to Frith 'gives such great vigour to the picture' in the foreground. He continues, in his commentary: 'Nature is here stripped of the beautiful colours and forms that elsewhere vary her surface, and reduced to the above conditions of her older state. This naked simplicity, apart from the effect of lofty mountains and majestic forms, and of the pure air of the sdesert, attunes the mind to comtemplation, and forbids the intrusion of earthly thoughts.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Convent of Sinai and Plain of Er-Raha. 225 x 159 mm. A view looking over a harsh and rocky valley landscape. Frith comments: 'In the view we look down the valley in which the convent stands towards the Plain of Er-Raha. The scene is strangely desolate. In the immediate foreground, up to the convent walls, stretches an arid tract strewn with broken fragments of rock, some of which are of vast size, as we see by comparing them with the little encampment in front. The fortress-like convent rises finely in the distance, and further still the Plain of Er-Raha is spread out beneath the encircling mountains, among which, to the left, in the extremest distance, may be seen the lofty ridge of Serbal.'.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Wadee El-Mukattab, Sinai. 227 x 161 mm. Frith comments:'This view represents a charismatic portion of the Wadee El-Mukattab. To the left is seen the entrance of one of the natural caves in which the district abounds, the supposed dwellings of the ancient Horim. The sharp forms of the rock, the deep shade within, and the graduations of the lighter surface, with its strange Sinaitic inscriptions, are beautifullu rendered. Before the rock a group of thorny desert-shrubs grow from the sand ... In the distance is the fine mountain barrier that walls in the valley.'.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Sinaitic inscriptions in Wadee El-Mukattab. 228 x 157 mm. A close up showing inscriptions carved in a rockface at Wadee El-Mukattab.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The summit of Gebel Moosa, Sinai. 219 x 156 mm. A view looking towards the summit of Gebel Moosa from a plateau on lower ground. Frith comments: 'The view is taken from the high irregular plateau from which rises the loftiest summit ... The perpendicular forms of the granite of the rounded height, utterly bared by the storms, rise grandly from the base, covered, like the lower region in the foreground, with washed-down fragments. Immediately before us is a deserted tract, among the loose stones of which grow prickly desert-shrubs, the food of camels. The little tent, and the Arabs seated around it, are appropriate to the country; they are Tor Bedawees, the first genuine Arabs whom the traveller sees in the ordinary eastern route ...''.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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View Hebron. 214 x 143 mm. A view looking over rocky ground (the ruined foundations of a former settlement) towards the western or Jewish quarter of the town, a closely-packed mass of low square buildings surrounded by hills.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Hebron with the mosque covering the Cave of Macpelah. 255 x 158 mm. A view looking over the town from a slope at its northern end with the mosque prominent among the small square houses at the left of the print. The area around the mosque is the business centre and bazaar of Hebron.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Gaza (the Old Town). 224 x 158 mm. A view looking over small fields and gardens towards the dilapidated buildings of the Old Town, with the mosque and its tower at the right of the print.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition, but a slightly blurred print.. |
circa 1860 |
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Samson's Gate, Gaza. 224 x 159 mm. A view on the outskirts of Gaza showing in the foreground the bases of the gates supposedly carried off by Samson.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Jerusalem, from Mount Scopus. 232 x 160 mm. A distant view taken from the northern extremity of the Mount of Olives and looking over the valley of Jehoshaphat towards the walls and town of Jerusalem. The prominent dome in the city is the Mosque of Omar. Frith comments: 'Nowhere in this series do we so fully recognize the peculiar excellence of photography as in the view before us. In it we have the very reflection of Jerusalem. Artists have represented the Holy City; but while we have admired their works, we have lamented an inevitable want of perfect exactness ... Here the first feeling is the satisfaction produced by confidence; and as with a much-loved face, such a truthful record is of more value than the most elaborately beautiful picture.'.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Jerusalem, from the well of En-Rogel. 227 x 162 mm. A view from the Well of En-Rogel (omitting the well itself from the picture), with the City of Jerusalem visible on the hillside beyond. The surrounding landscape is rock-strewn hillside with an (?) olive grove in the middle distance.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The mosque of Aksa, Jerusalem. 227 x 160 mm. A view looking along the city wall at the southern end of the city towards the mosque of Aksa, with the valley of Jehoshaphat and the Mount of Olives in the distance.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Valley of Jehoshaphat, Jerusalem. 227 x 160 mm. A view looking along the Valley of Jehoshaphat with the Mount of Olives in the background. In the foreground is the Jewish burial ground with tombstones and sepulchres. The furthest sepulchre is the Tomb of Absalom, the nearest the Tomb of Zechariah.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The village of Siloam and the Valley of Kidron. 227 x 157 mm. A view looking along the valley at the small village of low square houses on the hillside south-east of Jerusalem. This view looks south from the northern end of the village.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition, apart from slight fading.. |
circa 1860 |
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Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives. 226 x 156 mm. A view looking west from the Mount of Olives, over the Valley of Jehospaphat and towards Jerusalem, with the prominent dome of the Mosque of Omar in the centre. In the foreground are olive trees beside which stand two Arabs.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Entrance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 157 x 252 mm. A view showing the domed front facade of the Church, situated in the north-west part of the city. Frith comments: 'The exterior of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, as seen in this view, although it suffers much from the mean style of the upper portion, presents a very picturesque appearance. The Norman door-ways, with their rich clustered columns and well-proportioned arches, showing a fine mixture of bold and delicate work, and the not less beautiful, but much injured, windows above, one of which has been partly blocked up, are worthy memorials of the crusaders. Although not on a grand scale, nor displaying the breadth that renders many of our Norman churches admirable, the front is in a style at once pure and rich.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Street view with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. 226 x 157 mm. A view looking over dilapidated rooftops towards the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Frith comments: 'The ruined state of modern Jerusalem is strikingly brought before us in this view. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre has outside the aspect of a place long deserted ... The great square tower is seen to have partly fallen, the smaller, but loftier, towers to be decayed, and the chief dome to have l;ost half its outer covering ... The houses nearer us seem uninhabited, so miserable is their state. The street to the left, with its pavement sloping to the middle, and the ragged awnings of the shops, is harmonious in its wretchedness ...'.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Church of the Ascesion, Mount of Olives. 227 x 161 mm. A view looking up the western slope, dotted here and there with olive trees, towards the church and tower of the Ascension.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Pool of Hezekiah. 227 x 161 mm. A view from the tower of Hippicus looking on the pool of Hezekiah with the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the background.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Mosque of Omar, etc, Jerusalem. 219 x 159 mm. A view looking along the city wall towards the dome of the mosque of Omar and 'El Haram-esh-Sherif', the Holy Sanctuary, with the houses of the city beyond. With wasteland and cactus in the left foreground.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The Pool of Bethesda. 231 x 162 mm. A view taken from near St. Stevens gate looking towards the pool of Bethesda, the mosque of Omar and Aksa (partially obscured by smoke from a chimney in the foreground) and with the houses of the modern city on the right.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Absalom's Tomb, Jerusalem. 155 x 211 mm. A view showing the square stone sepulchre with a spine standing on the rocky hillside in the Valley of Jehosphaphat east of Jerusalem.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Convent of Mar-Saba. 226 x 121 mm. A view looking over the convent rooftops towards the sheer cliffs in which the caves of ascetics can be seen.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The north shore of the Dead Sea. 220 x 158 mm. A fine landscape photograph looking along the barren shores of the Dead Sea with bleached driftwood in the foreground and hills in the distance.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Nablous, the ancient Shechem. 216 x 165 mm. A view looking over the rooftops of Nablous, a town of white houses surrounded by tree-covered hills.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Nazareth, from the north-west. 230 x 158 mm. A view looking over the houses of Nazareth with cactus bushes in the foreground and hills in the background.Y30214A/7 is also given the same caption, but the two photographs are taken from diametrically opposed view points; which is correct has not been determined.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The town and lake of Tiberias, from the north. 226 x 153 mm. A view from the north-west looking over the town and towards the lake with the ruins of the roman castle and a modern brick wall in the foreground.
Creator: A view from the north-west looking over the town and towards the lake with the ruins of the roman castle and a modern brick wall in the foreground.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Tiberias, from the south. 226 x 157 mm. A view looking towards the houses of the town which run down to the shores of Lake Tiberias, with roman ruins in the foreground.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Banias, the ancient Caesarea Philippi. 222 x 158 mm. A view showing overgrown and crumbling ruins at Banias, forty miles south west of Damascus, with hills in the background.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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St. Paul's wall, Damascus. 225 x 159 mm. A view from outside the city looking along the perimeter wall. Frith comments: 'The subject of the present picture is the traditional site of St. Paul's midnight adventure - the suppository part of the wall from which je was let down in a basket and escaped the military guard of Aretas. It is on the south side of the city, where the country is open, and appears to be of roman date. In various places the modern houses project over the wall, affording illustrations of the facility of such a plan of escape as that narrated of St. Paul.'.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860-circ 1860 |
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Distant view of Damascus. 223 x 158 mm. A view looking towards the distant city from Salihiyeh with a ruined church (unidentified) in the foreground.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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Baalbec [Ba`labakk], from the south. 230 x 153 mm. A general view looking towards the massive remains of the temples of Baalbek, 35 miles north-west of Damascus. The photograph shows the six standing columns of the Great Temple, with the more complete smaller Temple at the right of the print.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The great pillars and smaller temple, Baalbec [Ba`labakk]. 162 x 227 mm. A view showing five of the pillars of the Great Temple with the smaller temple visible beyond.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The circular temple, Baalbec [Ba`labakk]. 225 x 155 mm. A view looking towards the small circular temple at Ba'labakk.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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The largest of the Cedars, Mount Lebanon. 227 x 158 mm. A view showing an ancient Cedar tree.
Creator: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898, photographer.
Good condition.. |
circa 1860 |
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