Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Field photograph·C00914

Portrait of Maria in Nicosia

Portrait of Maria in Nicosia, a woman in a headscarf and light blouse seated in a wooden chair.
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C00914. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A woman wearing a dark headscarf with a light patterned border and a light long-sleeved buttoned blouse sits in a wooden armchair, looking off to the right. The background is a plain, pale wall that gives way to a flat, hazy open area on the right. Her hands are folded in her lap at the bottom of the frame.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Portrait of Maria in Nicosia, a woman with a dark headscarf seated in a wooden chair.
Description, scan 2
A woman wearing a dark patterned headscarf and a light buttoned long-sleeved top sits in a wooden armchair, hands resting together in her lap. She faces to the right of the frame, against a plain pale backdrop with a blurred horizontal edge behind her. The photograph is a close, posed head-and-shoulders view.

English, translated from the Swedish record

Portrait of Maria in Nicosia.

Swedish, as on the record

Människor ("Folk och Fä").

Swedish, as on the record

Porträtt av Maria i Nicosia.