Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Temple of Kalabshee
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Temples of Nubia"

January 4, 1852
calotype negative
17.1 X 22.0 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 27998
81:1683:0190

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-190

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. 167.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Temple at Kalabshee, Nubia, built in the reign of Augustus Caesar. 4 Jany 1852"

NOTES: Waxed for printing. Retouched with black ink. Two slips at top corners. Variant in the HRHRC Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:64). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, temple / Kalabshee
landscape