Photograph·18982i

Famagusta: the harbour

Harbour at Famagusta with boats moored inside a curved stone sea wall
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18982i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A curved harbour with a stone wall running along the right foreground and a row of fortified towers across the water. Several sailing boats with masts are moored in the basin, and a larger two-masted vessel lies at anchor on the open sea to the left. Palm trees and low buildings sit on the land beyond the wall at the right.

Other images (2)

  • Famagusta: the harbour, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Famagusta: the harbour, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

The harbour of Famagusta with sailing boats moored in the basin, a larger vessel lying off in the open sea, and the town's fortifications along the shore. The 1981 print is the mirror image of the positive from the negative: one of the two is reversed left to right.

Written on the negative

Famagosta harbour, Cyprus. To be reversed