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Cities, Citadels, and Sights of the Near East: Francis Bedford's Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt, the Levant, and Constantinople
Sophie Gordon
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Flexibound. In 1862, the Prince of Wales embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JH; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 255 x 254 x 16. Weight in Grams: 888.
In 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlightenment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged with taking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royal album. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best early photographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From timeless views of the Pyramids, the ... Read more
In 1862, the Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's Queen Victoria, embarked on a grand tour of the Middle East, for his education and enlightenment. Accompanying the royal party was Francis Bedford, an accomplished practitioner of the still young art of photography, charged with taking views of the cities and historic places visited on the tour for the royal album. The result is an extraordinary collection of some of the best early photographs of Cairo and the temples of Upper Egypt, Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Lebanon and Damascus, Izmir and Constantinople. From timeless views of the Pyramids, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166709
SKU
V9789774166709
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Ref
99-15
About Sophie Gordon
Francis Bedford (1815-94) was an English architect and lithographer who took up the new art of photography in the early 1850s and began fulfilling royal commissions for Queen Victoria in 1857. In 1862 he was appointed official photographer to the Prince of Wales's tour of the Middle East, and his photographs from this trip were critically acclaimed. His London photographic ... Read more
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