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Half-plate.

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Half-plate.

Scope and Contents 171 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A view showing a group of Cypriot men in various attitudes. A carefully composed group which illustrates Thomson's perfectionist approach to his craft: 'The accompanying group was taken in front of the ancient Cathedral (now a mosque) of St Sophia. A friendly-disposed crowd of spectators had gathered round the mosque to witness the process of photographing the exterior of the building, and while the pious moslems held themselves aloof, a large number of...

Scope and Contents 182 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view looking over the town from the outer ramparts, with palms and small houses in the foreground and minarets on the horizon: 'Nicosia may be seen to greatest advantage from the summit of its wall. In the distance rises a forest of tapering minarets, that contrast well with graceful palms, and with the undulating lines of foliage that mark the sites of the gardens of the metropolis. The atmosphere, obscured by a heat-haze, imparts a soft, but indescribable,...

Scope and Contents 180 x 117 mm. Autotype. A view looking between clumps of palm trees towards minarets in the distance: 'These heavenward-pointing spires of a crushed and heavy laden race vie with Nature in adorning the scene ... The photograph affords a most attractive glimpse of the capital, which here appears to be a perfect garden of cultivation. The picture faithfully represents a portion of the outskirts of the town, but many quarters are to be found in which desolation reigns supreme' (Thomson...

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Half-plate. Part of stele of a dead lady: cypriot stone: traces of red colouring : lips : griffon spotted with red : perhaps 3rd Century B.C. Below this I have placed a marble winged cupid sleeping upon a goat wine-skin - holds in right hand a cup. Found in ploughed field near Paphos.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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Title also written in Greek.

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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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176 x 120 mm. Autotype. A view showing two Cypriots standing on the city walls with hills and the road from Nicosia visible in the distance.

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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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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.

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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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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Half-plate (landscape format). Boys in the schoolroom include English, Turkish, Greek, and Armenian.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the old playground.

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Half-plate (landscape format). In the new playground.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). Group of harvesters resting by the roadside near Famagusta Gate, Nicosia

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Quarter-plate.