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Interior of the Hall of Columns, Karnac
Creator
Francis FrithPhotographer · 1822–1898
All works by this person →Before turning his attention to photography around 1850, Francis Frith was apprenticed to a cutlery firm and worked as a wholesale grocer. With a partner he opened the Frith & Hayward photography studio in Liverpool. In 1856 Frith made an extended trip to Egypt, traveling up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel. He photographed along the entire way, using three different cameras: a stereoscopic one a
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1859–1860
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- English
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- bf3a2737-9517-4f5b-8061-733d32167ece
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Scene depicting two figures within a hall of large columns, covered in hieroglyphs. At the end of the hall ruins and fallen pillars can be seen.
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- Karnak Temple — Luxor, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “Interior of the Hall of Columns, Karnac”
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