FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)

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08.02.2024 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1134444
Lot 58 | FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)

The Pyramids of Sakkarah, North East

albumen print mounted on card

signed and dated in the negative (image); typed title (mount, recto)

Image/sheet: 38 x 49.2 cm. (15 x 19 ½ in.)

Mount: 53.2 x 65 cm (21 x 25 ½ in.)

1858





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, London, 9 November 1989, lot 629.

Acquired by Charles Isaacs Photographs, from the above.

Acquired by Quillan Company from the above, 1990.

Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 April 2008, lot 60.

Lee Gallery, Winchester, USA, from whom purchased by Philip Hewat-Jaboor in May 2012.



Literature

H. Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875, London, 1984, p. 31, no. 130.

Jill Qasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs, New York, 1991, pl. 20.



Exhibited

Probably Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, 19th-Century Views of Egypt, May - September 1992, catalogue not traced.
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