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1. 10076.i.2, 2

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2
Title:
Through Cyprus with the camera, in the autumn of 1878...In two volumes. With sixty permanent photographs. Vol. II. Photographer(s): Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Imprint: London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Buildings, 188, Fleet Street. 1879 Folio, half-leather binding with red cloth boards (British Museum binding, 1971), uniform with vol. 1, measuring 322 x 280 mm; edges gilt; containing 14 woodburytypes and 15 carbon prints, mounted ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
29 items

2. 10076.i.2, 2(36a)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(36a)
Title:
Mountaineers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait of a man from the village of Prodhromos, near the summit of Mount Troodos: 'The villagers are a robust race, as may be gathered from the two following photographs, the first of which represents one of the chief people of the place, a man w...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

3. 10076.i.2, 2(36b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(36b)
Title:
Mountaineers. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length seated portrait, looking to the left, of a man from Prodhromos, the nearest village to the summit of Mount Troodos: '...a tall, bony man of a most obliginly good-natured disposition...a bold, determined character, whose massive hands and muscular frame wo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

4. 10076.i.2, 2(42)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(42)
Title:
Limassol. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking over the waterfront rooftops of Limassol, 'taken from the top of the Franciscan monastery, where I had been most courteously entertained by the friars.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

5. 10076.i.2, 2(45)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(45)
Title:
Famagosta. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across fields towards the city: 'It is a place of ruins, a city of the dead, in which the traveller is surprised to encounter a living tenant. It, however, affords shelter to some six hundred Turks, whose wretched abodes are found scattered am...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

6. 10076.i.2, 2(52b)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(52b)
Title:
A Cypriote boy. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Three-quarter length standing portrait of a young boy, the son of the priest of Avgorou seen in print 52a.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

7. 10076.i.2, 2(53)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(53)
Title:
Mules and donkeys. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View taken in a village street, showing the owner of a group of donkeys seated on one of the animals: 'Mules for a photographer possess a most peculiar charm, arising from the perfect immobility of their repose once they have come to a halting-place.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

8. 10076.i.2, 2(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(54)
Title:
Modern female attire in Cyprus. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length standing portrait of two women: 'Nowadays, the attire of Cypriote women is frequently so simple as to suggest its being designed for comfort and convenience rather than for aesthetic display. There could, for instance, be nothing more simple or modest tha...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

9. 10076.i.2, 2(51)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(51)
Title:
Group at Avgoru. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait group of a man, women and children, in a house at Avgorou, 'a small village half-way between Larnaca and Famagosta, and about five miles inland...The interiors of the dwellings at Avgoru are poor, and their earthen floors are partly taken up in the storage o...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item

10. 10076.i.2, 2(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
10076.i.2, 2(29)
Title:
Kalopanagiotissa village. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the hillside, looking down onto the village of Kalopanagiotis and towards the hills beyond: 'We reach this highland village after riding for about four hours from Levka through the mountains in the direction of Troodos. The actual distance between the two ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878
Extent:
1 item