id: 156525 accession number: 1992.236 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.236 updated: 2025-02-15 12:46:40.432000 Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views, with Descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole: Fallen Statue at the Ramesseum, Thebes, 1857. Francis Frith (British, 1822–1898). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 38.3 x 48.2 cm (15 1/16 x 19 in.); matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.236 title: Fallen Statue at the Ramesseum, Thebes 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: 1857 creation date earliest: 1857 creation date latest: 1857 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century 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: 38.3 x 48.2 cm (15 1/16 x 19 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 black ink on recto of mount: "Frith, Photo. 1857"; "The RAMESEUM of EL-KURNAH / Thebes - First View" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Nineteenth Century Views of Egypt opening date: 1992-05-19T04:00:00 Nineteenth Century Views of Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 19-September 9, 1992). title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). 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). title: Stories from Storage opening date: 2021-02-06T05:00:00 Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Janet Lehr Fine Arts, East Hampton, NY) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 7, 1992 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1992." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38-79. page number: Mentioned: p. 68, no. 97; Reproduced: p. 47 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25161388 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 20-21, 177 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 10, December 1996 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 4 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-10/page/4 Tannenbaum, Barbara, “Pyramids & Sphinxes: Over the course of more than 150 years, images of Egypt's iconic landscape have ranged from awe-inspiring to cynical." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 8-10. page number: Reproduced: p. 9; Mentioned: p. 9, 10. url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.236/1992.236_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.236/1992.236_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.236/1992.236_full.tif