 Frank Hurley 1907 to 1950sCollectors' List 120 2006 |
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56 [The Dome of Rock... ...Viewed through an Archway], c1917. Toned silver gelatin photograph, 31.1 x 38cm. Repairs to upper left and lower right corners, handling crinkles. Twice photographed by Hurley when he went to Palestine during WWI and WWII. |
$3,300 |
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57 Bedouin Arab... ...Playing the Rebabah, 1940-46. Silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil verso, 37.3 x 28.1cm. Illustrated with caption in Ennis, Man with a Camera: Frank Hurley Overseas, 2002, p79: "A Muse of the Tents (Bedouin of the TransJordan desert playing on the rebabah, a primitive viol)." |
$1,650 |
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58 The Oldest Pyramid 1940-46. Silver gelatin photograph, titled and captioned in pencil verso, 36.9 x 28.1cm. Caption reads "The Step Pyramid at Saggara near Cairo. Over 5,000 years old." |
$1,850 |
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59 Gathering of Sheiks at Kerak,... ...TransJordan, 1940-46. Silver gelatin photograph, titled in pencil verso, 18.8 x 27.2cm. |
$990 |
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60 [Southern End of the Dead Sea] 1940-46. Silver gelatin photograph, typed caption label annotated in ink and signed in pencil verso, 18.8 x 27.3cm. Label with annotation reads "A unique landscape of salt sea and rugged mountains 1300 feet below sea-level at the southern end of the Dead Sea. This, the deepest and one of the hottest depressions on the face of the Globe is commercially exploited for the recovery of the minerals from the chemical laden waters. The Arabs call the Dead Sea the 'Sea of Lot.' Reminding us, that somewhere near here, Lot escaped to the mountains when the 'Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven.'" |
$770 |
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