Field photograph·Csn0230
Entering the Famagusta Gate, Nicosia
Description
An arched stone gateway with a dark opening stands in thick walls of stone blocks, with scrubby plants growing on the top of the wall. In front, a group walks toward the gate: women in dark headscarves and long skirts, a man in a light shirt with a stick at left, and a boy with a bundle on his back. At right, a boy rides a donkey, and a figure stands at the right edge.
Other scan of this record (1)
- Description, scan 2
- About eight people in headscarves, long skirts and loose shirts walk toward a dark arched gateway in a thick stone wall. A man rides a donkey on the right, and another man stands at the far right edge. Dry scrub grows along the top of the wall, and an iron bracket is fixed above the arch, with a printed text panel below the photograph.
English, as on the record
ENTERING THE FAMAGUSTA GATE, NICOSIA "The Island has in its midst a fair city called Nicosia, which is the capital of the kingdom, well walled, with its fine gates, which are three to wit the gate of Paffo, of Famagusta, and Cirinia. That of famagusta is the most beautiful, and in my judgement the city of Barcelona has none to match it." Joan Lopez-1770 (Peregrinacio a Jerusalem). Mangoian Bros. (Image is from "Cyprus Calendar" which was published at least 1950-1954. Copies can be seen for example on website for The Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR)).
English, as on the record
ENTERING THE FAMAGUSTA GATE, NICOSIA "The Island has in its midst a fair city called Nicosia, which is the capital of the kingdom, well walled, with its fine gates, which are three to wit the gate of Paffo, of Famagusta, and Cirinia. That of famagusta is the most beautiful, and in my judgement the city of Barcelona has none to match it." Joan Lopez-1770 (Peregrinacio a Jerusalem). Mangoian Bros. (Image is from "Cyprus Calendar" which was published at least 1950-1954. Copies can be seen for example on website for The Centre of Visual Arts and Research (CVAR)).