Photograph·18990i

Nicosia: a road between low houses

Dirt road lined with low flat-roofed houses and palm trees, with a tall minaret in the distance, Nicosia
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18990i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A dirt road runs through a town of low, flat-roofed houses. Tall palm trees stand on the right and left, and a slender minaret rises above the rooftops in the background. Two figures stand in the shade of a doorway at the lower left, and a few small figures are near the house at the centre.

Other images (2)

  • Nicosia: a road between low houses, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Nicosia: a road between low houses, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

An unpaved road through low flat-roofed houses in Nicosia, with palm trees and minarets in the distance. 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

To be reversed. Nicosia, Cyprus