Francis Bedford
Francis Bedford (1815–1894) was an English photographer. Was the son of the church architect Octavius. He began his career as an architectural draughtsman and lithographer, before taking up photography. He helped to found the Royal Photographic Society in 1853. At Marlborough House Queen Victoria commissioned him to photograph objects in the royal collection. On ‘09 Gallery set an record for Bedford's work During the Tour in the East, a suite of 3 albums from 1862. The albums sold $132,000.
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Francis Bedford (1815-94) (photographer) 'Rhodes, supposed site of the Colossus' 15 May 1862 The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was said to have straddled the entrance to the harbour into Rhodes Town. The Colossus was a statue of the Titan Helios, standing at about 30 m (107 ft) high. It was constructed to commemorate an unsuccessful siege of the island in 305 BC.
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Marble blocks from the frieze that ran around all four sides of the Parthenon. The frieze was sculpted probably between 438 and 432 BC. In the early nineteenth century, Thomas Bruce, the seventh Earl of Elgin, removed about half of the surviving marble blocks from the Parthenon. In 1816 they ended up in the British Museum. Francis Bedford photographed several of the blocks which remained in Athens. Acquired by the Prince of Wales, 1862
