Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Constantinople from Pera
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Constantinople"

Nov. 1851
calotype negative
17.1 x 22.5 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28112
81:1683:0198

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-198

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. 46.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in ink) "Costantinople taken from Pera looking over the Golden Horn burying ground in the fore ground. Novr.1851"

NOTES: Retouched with black ink. Waxed for printing. Two slips at top corners. 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:
landscape, cemetery
architecture, mosques
cityscape