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1. 10076.i.2, 1

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1
Title:
Through Cyprus with the camera in the autumn of 1878...In two volumes. With sixty permanent photographs. Vol. I. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. 1879 Folio, half-leather binding with red cloth boards (British Museum binding, 1971), measuring 322 x 280 mm; edges gilt; containing 12 woodburytypes and 19 carbon prints, mounted on light card, ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1878
Extent:
31 items

2. 10076.i.2, 1(18b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(18b)
Title:
A water-carrier. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of a young woman, posed in front of a wall and carrying a large terracotta jar, balanced against her hip.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

3. 10076.i.2, 1(19b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(19b)
Title:
Beggars [Cyprus]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a beggar woman with her two children, the youngest held in her arms: 'The woman shown in the present picture was evidently no professional beggar. She simply presented herself at the doorway of the house where I happened to be lodging; there she waited si...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

4. 10076.i.2, 1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(8)
Title:
A Cyprian maid. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of a young Cypriot woman.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

5. 10076.i.2, 1(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(10)
Title:
Cypriote peasants. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length seated portrait of two Cypriot men, one facing the camera, the other in profile: 'The two men represented in this picture were selected at random from a throng of peasants, such as may be seen any day in the streets of Larnaca...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

6. 10076.i.2, 1(18a)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(18a)
Title:
An aged Cyriote. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of an elderly woman, her arm around the shoulders of a young girl: 'Any attempt to photograph the fleeting expression of sentiment in the human face is almost certain to fail; nevertheless, a chance shot with the camera secured for us the accompa...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

7. 10076.i.2, 1(19a)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(19a)
Title:
A woman of the labouring class [Cyprus]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of a woman, posed in front of a wall and looking off to the left: 'This is a typical woman of the lower orders in Cyprus; one who to a powerful physique, well-formed features, and dark eyes, adds an expression of unflinching resolution. It was so...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

8. 10076.i.2, 1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(9)
Title:
Youth and old age [Cyprus]. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait of two women, seated in front of a wall, the young woman with a basket in her lap.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

9. 10076.i.2, 1(20)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(20)
Title:
Kerynia Plain, from the hills. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along a rift in the hills, opening out to the plain of Kyrenia beyond: 'Pleasant glimpses of the rich plain of Kerynia may be obtained, now and again, between the hills; or from the top of some eminence we may descry it spreading out a verdant expanse t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

10. 10076.i.2, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 1(3)
Title:
The sea shore, Larnaca. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the beach towards the harbour in the distance, with a figure posed beside a clump of cactus in the foreground: 'The photograph presents a view of the modern shore, which seems gradually to have been built up by the denudation of the rocks of the o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item