Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Mosque, Baalbec
SERIES TITLE: Group of negatives organized by the photographer, entitled "Baalbec"

ca. 1852
calotype negative
17.5 X 22.6 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 28012
81:1683:0252

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-252

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. 93.//

INSCRIPTION: recto (in ink) "Mosque at Baalbec"

NOTES: Plate waxed for printing. Retouched with black ink. 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. Variant in the HRHRC Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:68). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, mosque
landscape, figures in