Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Interior of the Great Hall

ca.1940 / 1940 ca.
gelatin silver print
16.3 X 21.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:1683:0353

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-353

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Barrett, Nancy. --Catalogue of the Photographs of John Shaw Smith Annotated and with Description and Analysis.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1981. ill. 131.//
Adam, Hans Christian. "John Shaw Smith (1811-1833), --Fotografie--, No 17/18, 1982. p. 98.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil, written by a family member) "Interior of Great Hall. Karnac. 1852"

NOTES: See calotype negative 81:1683:238. 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. Variant in the HRHRC Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0079:62). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECT: architecture, temple