Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Temple of the Winds and Aqueduct
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Athens"

October 1851
calotype negative
16.8 x 22.0 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28018
81:1683:0182

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-182

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. 35.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Clock Tower of andronicus Cyrrhestes which contained sun dial [and] also a water clock and aquaduct supplying same, also called the Temple of the Winds. Athens Oct.r 1851"

NOTES: Two slips at upper corners. Retouched with black ink on sky. Waxed for printing. See calotype negative 81:1683:184 (variant). Bibliographic reference listed indicates a positive reproduction of negative located in the collection of the Photographic Society of Ireland in Dublin. Catalogued 8/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
artifact, water clock
landscape, palm tree