The Temple Palace, Medinet Haboo
1857
Medium
Albumen print, pl. 35 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume II" (1858/60)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 15.8 × 22.6 cm (6 1/4 × 8 15/16 in.); Album page: 29.5 × 42.6 cm (11 5/8 × 16 13/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
158002
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...