Painting·PNT-00350·1792

Roadstead of Cyprus, with the ramparts of Amathus and the town of Limassol

Figures load stone blocks onto a boat on a beach, with a ruined wall and the sea beyond — Painting: Luigi Mayer, 1792. PNT-00350. "Roadstead of Cyprus, with the ramparts of Amathus and the town of Limassol". Reproduced by permission of the Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR), Costas and Rita Severis Foundation. Resized.

Description

In the foreground a boat sits at the water's edge on the left, and several men in long robes and caps carry or load stones into it. A seated man rests beside a column drum on the right, among large cut blocks. Behind them a tall ruined wall stands above a slope of rubble, with trees on its top, and the flat sea extends across the left background.

English

Men load stones from the ruined sea wall of Amathus onto a boat drawn up on the shore. A column drum and a cornice from another building lie among the blocks in the foreground.

Title in CVAR's catalogue

Roadstead in the island of Cyprus, showing the ramparts of Amathunta and the town of Limassol, 1792

Inscription, as transcribed by CVAR

Inscribed: Roadstead in the island of Cyprus, showing the ramparts of Amatunta and the town of Limassol

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