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Auction: 20058 - Fu Xin Tang Collection - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 2206

Photograph
Foreign Country

1857 albumen print photo "Island of the Thilae" taken by Fancis Frith (1822-1898) mounted on thin card with a copy of the photo information. Fries is a British geography photographer. It is said that he once traveled to China to shoot, but the legacy works about China are rare; he founded his own photography studio in Liverpool, England in 1853. The Middle East and Egypt as the main shooting subjects of him. This photo was taken at the Temple of Philae on the Philae Island, Nile River in Egypt and signed on this works. In fine condition.

Estimate
HK$2,500 to HK$3,500