FRANCIS BEDFORD

Middle Eastern Views, 1862

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FRANCIS BEDFORD
Middle Eastern Views, 1862
Five albumen prints, each approx. 9 x 11¼ in., signed, titled, dated and numbered in the negatives, three mounted on card, two titled in ink and one with printed label Bedford's Photographs of the Tour in the East of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales...London on mount. (5)

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Plates from Photographic Pictures made by Mr. Francis Bedford during the Tour in the East in which, by command, he accompanied H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, London: Day and Son, 1863. Titles include 'Mount Hermon', 'Safed', 'Baalbec', 'Hasbeiya' and 'Rasheiya'.

Already a well known and respected landscape photographer in England, Bedford was requested by Queen Victoria to accompany the Prince of Wales on his extended tour of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Constantinople and Athens in 1862.

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