Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Tombs of Navoleia Tyche and Caius Munatius Fautus
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Pompei"

Sept. 1851
calotype negative
17.0 x 22.0 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28142
81:1683:0142

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-142

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "The Tombs of Navoleia Tyche & Caius Munatius Fautus with Basso Relievs [sic] of a Vessel entering Port. Pompei Sept.1851"

NOTES: Retouched with black ink. Waxed for printing. Variant in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:46). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, ruins
artifact, bas relief
architecture, tombs