Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Wall of Saint Stephen
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Cairo, Pyramids, Palms, Nile Boats"

ca. 1851-52
calotype negative
17.5 X 22.3 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 27983
81:1683:0168

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-168

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Barrett, Nancy. --Catalogue of the Photographs of John Shaw Smith Annotated and with Description and Analysis.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1981. ill. 67.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Wall of St.Stephen and Travellers appartments at Sinai March 1851"

NOTES: Waxed for printing. Retouched with black ink on sky. Two slips at opposite corners. Although inscription states date for image as 1851, other inscribed images of locations in Italy indicate that a more precise date for this image is March, 1852. See calotype negative 81:1683:167. Catalogued 5/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, religious / Convent of Sinai
architecture, apartments / Travellers apartments