id: 153221 accession number: 1986.193 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.193 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:59.060000 Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views, with Descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole: Kom Ombo, c. 1858. Francis Frith (British, 1822–1898), William Mackenzie. Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 39.5 x 49 cm (15 9/16 x 19 5/16 in.); matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1986.193 title: Kom Ombo title in original language: series: Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views, with Descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole series in original language: creation date: c. 1858 creation date earliest: 1853 creation date latest: 1863 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francis Frith (British, 1822–1898) - artist Francis Frith British, 1822-1898 Francis Frith, best known for his views of Egypt and the Middle East, was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. A Quaker, he attended Ackworth School and Quaker Camp Hill School in Birmingham (about 1828-38), then apprenticed in a Sheffield cutlery house before working in a wholesale grocery business. He began photographing in 1850 and three years later helped to found the Liverpool Photographic Society. In 1856 Frith embarked on an extensive tour of Egypt, traveling up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel, and returning in July 1857. Inspired by this journey's success, that November he traveled again to Egypt and the Holy Land for about six months. During a third trip, in 1859-60, he voyaged up the Nile to the Sixth Cataract, farther than any photographer before him. These excursions were difficult; besides the desert heat, sand, and flies, the wet collodion process used by Frith meant traveling with numerous crates filled with cameras, chemicals, and darkroom equipment. The firm of Frith & Co. was established at Reigate, Surrey, in 1860, becoming one of the most important publishers of European topographic and architectural views. It continued under the direction of his descendants for well over a century. Previously, Frith's large views had been published in London by Thomas Agnew & Sons, and James S. Virtue, and his stereographs by Negretti & Zambra. Frith's 1876 catalog included more than 4,000 views, and his works and travelogue were assembled into several albums, which sold well as souvenirs and to armchair travelers. Many of the photographs certainly were taken by operators working for him. However, a number of Frith's prints, especially his large glass plate views of Egypt and the Middle East, still astonish with their grandeur of vision. T.W.F. * William Mackenzie - publisher --- measurements: Image: 39.5 x 49 cm (15 9/16 x 19 5/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: "42 [circled]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review for 1986 opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00 Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987). title: Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt opening date: 2016-02-06T00:00:00 Pyramids & Sphinxes: Views of Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-May 24, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, United Kingdom date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: February 2, 1987 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1986." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 2 (1987): 38-79. page number: p. 65, no. 75, repr. p. 64 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159974 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 178 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.193/1986.193_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.193/1986.193_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.193/1986.193_full.tif