Photograph·18998i

Famagusta: ruins and the town wall

Stone ruins in the foreground with a seated man in robes at left and a long city wall behind.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 18998i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Low courses of large dressed stone blocks form a stepped ruin in the foreground, with grass and weeds growing between them. A man in a long robe and cap sits at the left edge beside the stones. Behind, a long thick masonry wall runs diagonally across the view, with broken towers and walls beyond it, and a few palm trees appear at the far right under a pale sky.

Other images (2)

  • Famagusta: ruins and the town wall, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Famagusta: ruins and the town wall, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

Courses of large dressed blocks in the foreground, a man seated beside them, and a long stretch of the Famagusta walls and broken towers behind.