• Frank Mason Good (photographer)

View of Smyrna (now Izmir) and the Gulf of Smyrna [?] (now the Gulf of Izmir), Ottoman Empire (now in Turkey)

1860s

Albumen silver print from wet collodion negative

comp.: 15.1 x 20.7 cm secondary support: 30.2 x 38.1 cm

PH1981:0916

• exterior view

- A greyish white border frames the photograph.

numbered, inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "[with a price] / F.M. Good / 1860's" numbered and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "617"; l.c.: "SMYRNA. / THE SITE OF ONE OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF ASIA, AND THE SCENE OF A BITTER PERSECUTION AGAINST THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, TO WHICH THE APOSTLE / JOHN CLEARLY REFERRED IN Rev. ii. "FEAR NONE OF THOSE THINGS WHICH THOU SHALT SUFFER: BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE THEE A / CROWN OF LIFE.""

Izmir; Izmir Ili; Turkey;

• architecture
• topographique

• trees
• houses
• city
• ships
• buildings
• mountains
• gulf