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Quarter-plate. Boys of the Greek Elementary School of Larnaca (attached to a church in similar way to old voluntary schools in England). Beside the entry stands Little John a deacon of the Church. Tomb of St. Lazarus (Raising of Lazarus) is in this Church.

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175 x 114 mm. Autotype. A view showing the elaborate entrance to the church with a few Cypriots around the doorway: 'Hard by the Cathedral of St Sophia stands a church once dedicated to St. Nicholas, but now used as a granary, whose richly-sculptured portal, the subject of this photograph, is one of the finest examples of its kind in Cyprus' (Thomson 1879, vol.1, p.15). The building, in a sad state of disrepair in this photograph, has now been completely demolished.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). The flying buttresses, seen as we stand upon the roof of side aisle : Famagusta, Cyprus.

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Half-plate. Viewed with our backs to Lusignan Palace.

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An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

Scope and Contents 177 x 115 mm. Autotype. A view looking along a street towards cathedral buildings, topped by minarets. Situated in the centre of Nicosia the Cathedral was adapted for use as a mosque after the Turkish Conquest of the island in 1570-71: 'It is fortunate that Moslem economy, or, perhaps, a lack of fanatical zeal, has preserved to us so much of this fine specimen of early Gothic architecture. The tower, which once crowned the edifice, has given place to galleried minarets; the old sonorous...

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An album containing postcard views of Cyprus. The postcards are by a variety of photographers and publishers.

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162 x 211 mm. A studio photograph of an archer (lacking head and arms) carved in archaic Cypriot style.

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172 x 129 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Cyprus is believed to be the acknowledged birthplace of the Greek Goddess of Love and as such is recorded in Homer. A temple of the Goddess exists at Paphos and the beautiful locality Fontana Amorosa believed to be the goddess's bathing place'.

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278 x 198 mm. A view showing numerous small figures, including humans, animals and models of chariots, executed in an unsophisticated style.

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278 x 190 mm. A view showing numerous small figures and also steatopygus female figures.

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303 x 178 mm. A view showing statues and heads carved in Hellenistic and (?) Oriental style.

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282 x 199 mm. A view showing several small statuettes, carved in (?) Oriental style.

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287 x 195 mm. A view showing several small statuettes carved in (?) Oriental style.

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299 x 148 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.

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316 x 161 mm. A view showing several statuettes carved in Hellenic style.

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312 x 138 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes including female figures, satyrs, and a rooster.

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309 x 150 mm. A view showing mainly female full-length statuettes in Hellenistic style.

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310 x 149 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures, animals, Hercules wrestling with a serpent and a figure of Pan.

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297 x 146 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes in Hellenistic style, including female figures and masked figures.

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315 x 160 mm. A miscellaneous display of statuettes, with figures in Hellenistic style in the foreground (including a representation of Leda and the swan), and Cypriot figures behind (including a steatopygous female and an almost abstract rendering of a mother and child).

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312 x 149 mm. A display of figures in Hellenistic style including two statuettes of humans riding cockerels.

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309 x 142 mm. A large display of miscellaneous figures in Hellenistic style.

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313 x 197 mm. A large display of miscellaneous objects, including bottles and vases, and figures in Hellenistic and Cypriot style.

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211 x 163 mm. A studio photograph of two lions seated on a piece of decorative stonework, carved in mixed Oriental-Assyrian style.