Photograph·18988i

Nicosia: two men on the walls

Two men in long robes and caps talking beside a crumbling stone parapet above open country
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18988i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Two men stand on a crumbling stone parapet and face each other in conversation. The man on the left wears a light cap and a long dark robe and rests one arm on the wall. The man on the right wears a dark cap and robe with wide trousers and stands with a hand at his waist. Behind them lies flat open country, and a rounded fortified bastion with a crenellated top rises on the right.

Other images (2)

  • Nicosia: two men on the walls, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Nicosia: two men on the walls, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

Two men in conversation on the crumbling parapet of the Nicosia walls, with a bastion and the open plain beyond. 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

On the fort, Nicosia, Cyprus, Capital of Cyprus. To be reversed