The Temple of Edfu

Artist Francis Frith (British, 1822-1898)

Dateabout 1857

Dimensionsmat: 16 3/4 x 20 7/8 in. (42.5 x 53 cm)
image: 6 3/4 x 9 in. (17.1 x 22.9 cm)

MediumAlbumen silver print

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Ronald G. Bauman in memory of his sister, Barbara Bauman Hart

Object number

2001.37

Not on View

DescriptionAlbumen silver print from wet plate, collodion glass negative. Albumen silver print from wet plate, collodion glass negative.

Label TextThis photograph shows the Temple of Edfu before it had been completely unearthed by 19-century archeologists. The Temple stands approximately 60 miles south of Luxor and is one of the best-preserved monuments of ancient Egypt. At this temple, Horus, the child of Isis and Osiris, was worshipped in several forms—as a falcon, as a human being with a falcon’s head, and as a winged disk.Published Referencescf. Julia Van Haaften, Egypt and the Holy Land in Historic Photographs (New York: Dover, 1980): pl. 36. cf. Chris Hemphill, "Frith's Photographic Views of Egypt," Nineteenth Century, 3 (Summer 1977): 70-73. cf. Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969).Exhibition HistoryTMA New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002. Toledo Museum of Art, Travelers Through Ancient Lands, Sept. 10 - Feb. 6, 2011 (no cat.).

Toledo Museum of Art, The Mummies: From Egypt to Toledo, February 3- May 6, 2018.