Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Convent of Sinai

ca.1855-1895
albumen print
17.3 X 22.8 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
GEH NEG: 35701
81:1683:0323

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-323

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. 66.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil) "Convent of Sinai. March 1852"

NOTES: See calotype negative 81:1683:167. Positive reproduction of this negative is located in the collection of the Photographic Society of Ireland in Dublin. Catalogued 5/92, MAP.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, ruins / Convent of Sinai
landscape, mountains