Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Temple at Herment

ca.1852-95
albumen print
17.0 X 22.4 cm. (irreg.)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:1683:0305

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-305

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. 152.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil, written by a family member) "Temple at Herment built by Cleopatra. Jany 17th 1852"

NOTES: See calotype negative 81:1683:227. According to Nancy Barrett this image is reproduced in Smith's album entitled "Egypt" which is held in the collection of the Photographic Society of Ireland in Dublin. Catalogued 5/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, temple
architecture, tombs
landscape, mountains