Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, from the Well of En Rogel
ca. 1857
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973
Accession Number
1973.597.6
Tags
About this artwork
"Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, from the Well of En Rogel" by Francis Frith, created in ca. 1857, is executed in albumen silver print from glass negative. This photographs belongs to the Metropolitan Museum's Photographs collection. The artwork entered the museum's collection through the elisha whittelsey collection, the elisha whittelsey fund, 1973.
Art Historical Context
**Mount Moriah, Jerusalem from the Well of Enel** Captured around 1857 by pioneering British photographer Francis Frith this albumen silver print a glass negative offers a stunning vista of Mount Moriah—today's Temple Mount—from the ancient Well of En Rogel Jerusalem's edge. Frith, one of the first photographers to document the Middle East, trekked through Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, producing vivid landscapes that brought biblical lands to Victorian audiences. The image's expansive composition highlights rugged mountains and distant cityscapes, evoking the Holy Land's timeless allure. The...
About the Artist
Francis Frith · 1822–1898
Francis Frith (1822–1898) was born on 7 October 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, into a prosperous Quaker merchant family as the second child and only son of Francis Frith Sr. and Alice Walker. Educated at Quaker schools including Ackworth and Camp Hill in Birmingham from around 1828 to 1838, he apprenticed in the cutlery trade before establishing himself as a wholesale grocer in Liverpool, suppl...