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The collection of Francis Frith, the eminent Victorian photographer and founder of the world-famous photographic archive The Francis Frith Collection contains many images of people at leisure.
Pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith began the project in the 1860s AN amazing collection of British images has become available online for the first time. Over 150 years ago ...
The Holy Bible … Illustrated with Photographs by [Francis] Frith. Glasgow: Printed and published by William ... retirement as the David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and ...
An exhibition of the work of Victorian photographer Francis Frith opens at the National Maritime Museum in London in September. Called “Beside the Seaside: snapshots of British coastal life, ...
The photographs were all taken by Francis Frith, a British photographer who travelled around the country and the Middle East. An image from Queen Victoria's Diamons Jubilee celebrations also forms ...
383 pp.; 79 b/w ills. $95.00 DOUGLAS R. NICKEL Francis Frith in Egypt and Palestine: A Victorian Photographer Abroad Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. 239 pp.; 85 b/w ills. $67.50 The ...
A photographer's fantastic archive of historic pictures, capturing life in the North East from the Victorian era to the present day, has been published online. The Francis Frith Collection ...
Born into a Quaker family in 1822 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Francis Frith was a multi-talented ... only 14 years after the invention of photography - he founded his own photographic publishing ...