Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Tomb at Petra
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Cairo, Pyramids, Palms, Nile Boats"

ca.1851-52
calotype negative
17.2 X 22.4 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 27981
81:1683:0171

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-171

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. 69.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Tomb at Petra. March 1851"

NOTES: Two slips along right edge. Waxed for printing. Retouched with black ink. Variant in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:71). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECT: architecture, tomb