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202 x 150 mm. A view showing two stone columns at Paphos.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). New Paphos town in distance. Note near ruins, Temple of Venus is 9 miles away

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Title also written in Greek.

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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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204 x 154 mm. A view showing a stone monument carved with Greek characters at Paphos.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Chrysopotitisa Church near Paphos. In the foreground I have placed a nougani, one of the sleighs for the threshing floor, so that you may see the way in which the chipped flints are set on the underside to cut and tear the straw.

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173 x 169 mm. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'In this picture just inside the masonry enclave is the pillar to which St. Paul is reputed to have been bound and scourged when he visited Paphos to convert the Emperor Sergius Paulus to Christianity. The pillar stands in the grounds of Chrysopolitissa church'.

Scope and Contents 180 x 120 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the flat landscape towards distant mountains: 'In the middle-distance of this picture we see a portion of those limestone rocks which the ancients have honeycombed with their tombs, and Ktimu, the provincial capital, stands about half-a-mile further inland. The view shows us, not only the position of the town, but also the general appearance of a Cyprian plain, with its interspersed patches of fallow ground and cultivated fields' (Thomson 1879,...

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174 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A very finely composed landscape study of the ruins, with a figure in white in the foreground: 'The most imposing ruin to be found in Neo Paphos is represented in the photograph before us, but the ground everywhere is strewn with the shafts, the capitals, and the bases of pillars, and with heaps of stones, among which may be seen bits of old pottery mingled with fragments of sculptured marble' (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.40).

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171 x 226 mm. A view looking out from the tombs towards the supporting Doric columns of the chambers. The caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'Cut in the Rock the roof usually supported by doric columns are the imposing 'Tombs of the Kings' at Kato Paphos. They in their magnitude as to construction and beauty form an ever-lasting stamp in the Hellenistic tradition in architecture, recollecting the famous rock tombs of Lindos in Rhodes',