Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: The Two Colossi

ca. 1940 / 1940
gelatin silver print
21.5 X 16.4 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:1683:0328

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-328

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. 150.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil, written by a family descendant) "the two Colossi at Thebes. the one partly built was the vocal Memnon. Height of figures 46 ft. present height of pedestal 6 ft. Jany 23. 1852"

NOTES: See calotype negative 81:1683:229. Catalogued 5/92, MAP.

SUBJECT: architecture, ancient / Two Colossi, The