Sinai and Palestine
Francis Frith
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1908, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1991.1073.91
Tags
Landscapes
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...