[Bare ruins in desert, Egypt]

Getty Museum

[Bare ruins in desert, Egypt]

Creator

Francis Frith

Photographer · 1822–1898

All works by this person →
PrintmakerPrinterMaker

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
1856–1857
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
8c7bf28a-b112-42ee-8b9f-365c13300ea0
View at Getty Museum ↗

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.FOixnDdZfchnPV8A.sMQ1zJvWXWsRtm1Gyn1z7GTEnrjYmA2Iv73u7kpiJ85UtU2DzRDjRWCvh8N4EJHs3jAPziMY_edWv59IOd0BqQnBz0nESzmvzkbrG-3uKkV3RIoPUDaagPUL78kuYsBaa_wIZoZSvqSZ0NxiB8RJYuMCmgPOazWBNNdFqibtxsd7F41i753fH3sUBjusADbhuXNYZtwYl-IGGFmjySvg3fTJ_rmJwYke7yLnNuQb_4_tNVoPwgnheIIn95LWKzxV31S-DhEs1mFTfPnnTI11CNb1JhNjjnD6DXX5KqOwfwrNEkiSlqvwpTrUTgr84O2zn2LVpDeKOH6uUwmk-OpCM0VxxVqTcog54VxZ1Ha69uGJjy2F0Mhj9U5fvULHqWEyBJlhDZcEqDrt6lzeLxF2See at Getty Museum QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.193E9Kqurjv61v3u.rIqhXPxQZY4_Ozc5TL1FUycYRN3ydjVl_ldzR2gD0wS4odAcJzZmVpHPNpGT2GuvKbqqk_DO_tasZ-wlYwowEIEMpphC4oyuzsqAOzTla0qHd9Gn6JfVh-K4Gv7XfpL0ph6wWiCJpkueyGmZiK2Tz9AVcmX574Xy-aWkkwKAlVVLLB3wlBcNpPUkcK33johaxqJ6Ak1VpuFxMY0rn9jsel2ps85tXPFck6Ls7HZgIAu7qDldAkVaTfJqZD6qKBu-JcwjCCsv52qhORvLXdQ5rUM7UkTlnEh2YyAdD3PS-lMmnpkFQLmLD9e_KfPk68upzZgpgoTk4r7_qQwAGLPtkM9DIw6RObHSS6l-IvdyaEOjcX-HQOVBWmcIkfw
Open this page
See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.