Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Minarets of the Tomb of Sultan Berkook

ca.1940
Gelatin silver print
21.4 x 16.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:1683:0355

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-355

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Barrett, Nancy. --Catalogue of the Photographs of John Shaw Smith Annotated and with Description and Analysis.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1981. il 55, 109.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil, written by a family member) "The Minareto of the Tomb of Sultan Beekoook [sic] with Mosquet. Tomb of Sultan Eshref in Distance. Cairo. Nov.1851"

NOTES: See calotype negative 81:1683:155. 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, minarets
cityscape