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"

March 1852
calotype negative
22.6 X 17.2 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 27985
81:1683:0172

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-172

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. 73.//

INSCRIPTION: recto (in ink) "Petra. March 1852"

NOTES: Two slips along left edge. Plate waxed for printing. Bibliographic reference listed indicates a positive reproduction of negative. Positive reproduction of this negative is located in the collection of the Photographic Society of Ireland in Dublin. Variant in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:71). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, ruins
architecture, tomb