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Francis Frith — City Wall and Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem
Francis Frith

City Wall and Mosque of Omar, Jerusalem

1857

Frith's photograph of Jerusalem's most sacred spaces demonstrates his role in bringing biblical landscapes into Victorian parlors through the new medium of photography.

Medium
Albumen print, pl. 28 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

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