Tombs in the southern cemetery, Cairo – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Tombs in the southern cemetery, Cairo, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Tombs in the southern cemetery, Cairo
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The subject is the tombs in the southern cemetery of Cairo, part of the vast necropolis that stretches from the medieval city toward the desert and is often called the City of the Dead. Francis Frith, the English photographer who traveled in Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine in the mid-1850s, made the view for a supplementary volume to his published series in 1857. Photographs like this one gave European readers a more direct look at Egyptian burial architecture than the engravings and sketches common in travel books of the time. The picture is worth studying for its careful attention to the domed tombs and walled enclosures, and as an early example of how photographers recorded Egypt's funerary landscape.
| Created / published | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by Francis Frith. Illus. in: Francis Frith, Egypt, Sinai, and Palestine, supplementary volume, 1857. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Death; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,341 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157546 |
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