View on the Island of Philae

Photographer: Francis Frith, English, 1822–1898
Date: 1857
Material: Albumen print from glass negative
depicts: Philae, Aswan governorate, Egypt, Africa
Classification: Photographs
Collection: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Current Location: Not on view
Dimensions: 6 1/4 × 9 1/16 in. (15.9 × 23 cm)
framed: 15 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (39.1 × 51.8 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of David R. Hanlon
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 53:2020

NOTES

Here, Francis Frith focused his attention on the outer court of the Temple of Isis at Philae, constructed around 360 BCE. The island of Philae was the site of a significant complex on the upper (southern) cataract of the Nile River, containing temples from early Egyptian and Nubian eras and later Roman buildings. This temple structure was relocated in the 1960s due to the construction of the Aswan Dam on the river and subsequent flooding. Frith made a significant impact as both a photographer and publisher of his own work and that of others.

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