Frith, Francis author, photographer. still image still image Albumen prints-1800-1900. enk 1858 1859 monographic London : James S. Virtue, [1858-1859?] eng 1 volume : chiefly illustrations ; 45 x 35 cm

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The album collects 76 albumen prints, 37 in first and 39 in the second volumes. Photographs are mounted on leaves with letterpress titles. Each picture is preceded by a guard sheet and followed by text describing the preceding plate. The two volumes are bound together in one quarter bound album in a light green board with brown leather spine and corners. The volume has gold lettering on both cover and spine and gold gilts of all the edges. On the pastedown there are two bookplates. The first is Lady Edith Lyttelton Gells ex libris and on it there is the Stoke Newington Library in Hackeney. Both have been partly ripped off the inside front cover. This 2 volumes publication was the result of the second trip made by Frith between 1857 and 1858. On this new expedition Frith photographed the city of Cairo and the important biblical and historical sites of Palestine and Syria. He took pictures of the archeological sites in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Damascus and Hebron, and Baalbek. This set of photograph was then exhibited and projected by Frith, who was also asked to give public lectures about his travel. Also in the album, in fact, photographic views are combined with Friths account of his tour of the Near East. No Known Copyright photographed and described by Francis Frith. Gell family is a prominent historical figure in Derbyshire and can be traced back as far as the reign of Elizabeth I. Edith Lyttelton Gell, like her brother Philip Lyttelton Gell President of the British South Africa Company, was very member of the society and of the family. She wrote a number of pamphlets encouraging womens work to support the efforts of the British troops during World War I. In 1891 she also edited the book "The Cloud of Witness. A Daily Sequence of Great Thoughts from Many Minds following the Christian Seasons", a selection of inspiring quotes, scripture verses, and poetry by classical authors like William Wordsworth, Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare and others. Main Heritage Display General HC.FB.25689 Book Item-ID: i15636975 BIB-ID: 1010132 Douglas R. Nickel Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Gell, Edith Mary 1860-1944 Gell, Philip Lyttelton 1852-1926 Egypt Photographs Palestine Photographs aacr rda QAFCL 111104 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng