The Hypaethral Temple, Philae
Francis Frith
1858
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 15 in. × 18 3/4 in. (38.1 × 47.6 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gifts, by exchange, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.675
Tags
Temples
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...