Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Property from the Collection of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Francis Frith
'The Pyramids of Dahshoor from the South West'
Lot Closed
October 5, 02:57 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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