Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Greek Byzantine Church
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Athens"

October 1851
calotype negative
17.2 x 22.5 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28019
81:1683:0186

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-186

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. 34.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "An old Greek Church in the Byzantine Architecture. Athens 21st Oct.1851"

NOTES: Two slips at top corners. Retouched with black ink. Waxed for printing. Bibliographic reference listed indicates a positive reproduction of negative 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 (964:0078:109). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, church
architecture, religious / Byzantine