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Frank Cook at Luxor

Photograph
1884-1885 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph in an album containing elaborately decorated dedication page, titlepage, drawings (56) of urban and rural life in Egypt and of incidents during the British military occupation of Egypt and Sudan, and albumen prints (2), mounted on 38 album leaves of gilt-edged card, full bound in padded brown morocco. In addition, drawings (4) of similar subjects, photographs (3) and a letter (1), all detached.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleFrank Cook at Luxor (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
`Frank Cook at Luxor'. 1885-1885. Unknown photographer.
Physical description
Photograph in an album containing elaborately decorated dedication page, titlepage, drawings (56) of urban and rural life in Egypt and of incidents during the British military occupation of Egypt and Sudan, and albumen prints (2), mounted on 38 album leaves of gilt-edged card, full bound in padded brown morocco. In addition, drawings (4) of similar subjects, photographs (3) and a letter (1), all detached.
Dimensions
  • Covers height: 37cm
  • Width: 29cm
Styles
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed with title
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund, Shell International and the Friends of the V&A
Object history
According to Rodney Searight: - `Bt Sotheby's April 29th 1968 [(129)] £25 + Commission'. [SD.417-SD.421 were all included in the same lot]
Historical context
Frank Cook accompanied his father John Mason Cook on the Khartoum expedition.
The album is dedicated by the artist Frederick George to John Mason Cook (1834-1899), son of Thomas Cook, founder of the travel firm. As well as its tourist activities in Egypt, the firm was responsible for transferring the wounded from Alexandria to Cairo after the Battle of Tell al-Kabir in 1882, and in 1884-5 J.M. Cook directed the transportation up the Nile of the abortive British expedition to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum. Although the album itself is dated 1885 on the dedication page, it contains drawings dated 1875, 1882, and 1885, 1886 and 1887. For information on the subject matter of the drawings, see E.W. Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, 1836.
Subjects depicted
Places depicted
Collection
Accession number
SD.421:51

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Record createdJune 18, 2008
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