Live Auction 22980Philip Hewat-Jaboor: An Eye for the Magnificent
FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
Lot 58

FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)

The Pyramids of Sakkarah, North East

Closed8 February 2024

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GBP 4,000–6,000

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FRANCIS FRITH (1822-1898)
The Pyramids of Sakkarah, North East
albumen print mounted on card
signed and dated in the negative (image); typed title (mount, recto)
Image/sheet: 38 x 49.2 cm. (15 x 19 ½ in.)
Mount: 53.2 x 65 cm (21 x 25 ½ in.)
1858

Anonymous sale; Christie's, South Kensington, London, 9 November 1989, lot 629.
Acquired by Charles Isaacs Photographs, from the above.
Acquired by Quillan Company from the above, 1990.
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 April 2008, lot 60.
Lee Gallery, Winchester, USA, from whom purchased by Philip Hewat-Jaboor in May 2012.

Specialist note


Francis Frith was struck with wanderlust at an early age. Discontented with his job in Liverpool and inspired by the pyramids, he made his first trip to Egypt in 1856, landing in Alexandria in September of that year, travelling up the Nile through Egypt to Syria and Palestine. There he concentrated on capturing the monuments of the 'romantic past'. This photograph is from his second trip and shows the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, the 3rd Dynasty Step-Pyramid of Pharoah Djoser.