Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Street of the Tombs
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Pompei"

Sept. 1851
calotype negative
17.3 x 22.3 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28176
81:1683:0149

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-149

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Street of Tombs. Pompeii. Sept 1851"

NOTES: Retouched with black ink. Waxed for printing. Two slips at upper corners. One slip at lower right corner. 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
architecture, tombs