Lot 42
42 •FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
Group of 10 photographs of the Holy Land, including the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Baalbec, and Sinai. Albumen prints, the images measuring 6¼x8 7/8 inches (15.9x22.6 cm.) the mounts 12 7/8 x18 inches (32.8x45.7 cm.), each with Firth's credit and inventory number in the negative, and a credit and caption, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1857
[2,500/3,500]
Northern shore of the Dead Sea * The Wady Fieran, Sinai * The Village of Siloam and Valley of the Kidron, Jerusalem * Facade of the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem * Great Pillars and Smaller Temple, Baalbec * Temple, Baalbec * Tiberias, From the North * Mount Horeb * Mount Serbal, Sinai * The Largest of the Cedars.
Acquired Sotheby's London, June 28, 1985, lot 53. According to photo historian Bill Jay "These photographs were probably first issue subscription prints." Victorian Cameramen (1973), p. 26.
