Stolzenfels

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Stolzenfels

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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

View of riverbank area with a number of moored barges, as well as a bridge that spans the river. A few houses can be seen on the left area of the image. Visible in the distance is the hilltop Stolzenfels Castle, a Gothic Revival castle with a crenellated parapet and an adjacent double-spired chapel.

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