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Lot 97
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$300 -
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$281
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Lot Description
FRANCIS FRITH (BRITISH, 1822-1898) GROUP OF 15 PHOTOGRAPHS OF EGYPT, 1857-1859
1857-1859. Each with photographer's signature and most dated in the negative. Albumen prints flush-mounted to board.
Image/sheet: approximately 9 x 6 3/8 in. (22.9 x 16.2cm) each.
Francis Frith was one of the first photographers to experiment with glass negatives, allowing him to created highly-detailed and easily reproducable images of sights most English citizens had never seen. He produced nine publications from his trips to the Middle East.