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Photograph·18984i

Famagusta: orchards and ruined churches towards the sea

Orchards and palm trees in the foreground, with ruined church walls and towers against a pale sky above the sea at Famagusta.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18984i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Fruit trees and palms fill the foreground, with a low stone wall running diagonally across the lower left. Behind them, the roofless walls and window openings of a large ruined church rise on the right, with a slender tower, and a smaller ruin stands to the left. Flat rooftops and the sea line the horizon.

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  • Famagusta: orchards and ruined churches towards the sea, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

A view across orchards and palm trees to the ruined churches of Famagusta, with the sea on the horizon. Thomson wrote "Famagusta Cyprus" across the top of the plate.

Written on the negative

Famagusta Cyprus