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Field photograph·C02795·1930

From the road to Vouni

Two large trees frame a scrubby hillside along the road to Vouni
Photograph: John Lindros, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, C02795. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Two large trees with dark trunks and spreading canopies frame the view in the foreground, and their shade falls across pale, sandy ground. Beyond them, low bushes and a few small trees line an open track that rises toward a hillside under a bright sky.

Other scan of this record (1)

  • Two large trees framing a dirt track that leads toward a bush-covered hillside near Vouni
Description, scan 2
Two large trees with dark, spreading canopies frame the view along a pale, open track of bare earth. Beyond them, scrubby bushes cover a gentle slope that rises to a hill under a bright sky. Shadows from the trees fall across the foreground ground.

English, translated from the Swedish record

From the road to Vouni.

Swedish, as on the record

Från vägen till Vouni.

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Photographs: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm (CC0)