Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Photograph·18992i

Nicosia: palm trees, with minarets beyond

Tall palm trees frame a dusty open ground with low houses and minarets in the distance, Nicosia.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18992i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Tall date palms stand on both sides of a dusty, open plot in the foreground, with a bushy tree in the centre. Low flat-roofed houses and a few slender minarets or towers rise in the distant background beneath a pale sky. No people are visible.

Other images (2)

  • Nicosia: palm trees, with minarets beyond, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Nicosia: palm trees, with minarets beyond, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

An open plot between date palms in Nicosia, with low houses, a minaret and a tower on the skyline. 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