Summit of the Furca Pass

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Summit of the Furca Pass

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Francis Frith

Photographer · 1822–1898

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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

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Date
about 1864
Medium
Tinted albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
9daef016-baf1-489c-9841-de368a9a6580

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View of a rocky hill, looking toward some snow-covered mountains in the distance.

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