Artist

Francis Frith

Sculptures in the Great Temple
The Sphinx
Colossal Figure at Abou Simbel, Nubia

Francis Frith is an Impressionism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Francis Frith traveled with a camera and tripod to Egypt in the 1850s, lugging glass plates into temples and desert sites to record the ancient world before modern change. His photographs freeze monumental stone faces and weathered columns in sharp, quiet detail. See the giant seated statue at Abou Simbel rising from the sand and the silent Sphinx staring across the plain. Want more big stones in sharp focus? Tap into “Sculptures in the Great Temple” next.

Works by Francis Frith

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

Catalog records compiled from museum open-access collections; the artworks shown are in the public domain. Spotted an error in this record? Tell us.