Object Details
- Author
- Photo Engraving Co. of New York
- Subject
- Smithson, James 1765-1829
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Sepia tone version in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, volume 21, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1881, p. 10. Also have photograph of the site, located in SIA RU7000, B5, F11. Have numerous copies of engraved plate.
- Summary
- Engraving of James Smithson's grave in the Protestant or English cemetery on a hilltop near Genoa, Italy. The inscription reads: "This monument is erected, and the ground on which it stands purchased in perpetuity by Henry Hungerford, esq., the deceased's nephew, in token of gratitude to a generous benefactor and as a tribute to departed worth."
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 21, Folder 7-B
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1881
- Standard number
- 82-3202
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Color: Sepia; Size: 4 1/2 x 7; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Genoa (Italy)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Benefactors
- Memorials
- Smithson, James--Death and burial
- Smithson family
- Tombs
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9921
