View from Philae, Looking North

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Francis Frith / English, 1822–1898
Date: 1857
Medium: Albumen print, pl. 11 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)
Dimensions: Image/paper: 15.6 × 23.3 cm (6 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.); Album page: 29.2 × 42.6 cm (11 1/2 × 16 13/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: photograph
Style: 19th century
Place: England
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Photography Gallery Fund
Accession no.: 1959.613.11

Portrait, Turkish Summer Costume
Francis Frith
1857 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000191
Fallen Statue at the Ramesseum, Thebes
Francis Frith
1857 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000349
Distant View of the Cedars of Lebanon
Francis Frith
ca. 1857 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000553
Cedars of Lebanon
Francis Frith
ca. 1857 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000554