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Photograph·19000i

Famagusta: ruined churches beyond a field of crops

Ruined stone arcade with pointed arches and a tall tower, with tall crops in the foreground and a figure with a donkey.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19000i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A tall ruined stone arcade with pointed arches stands at right, with a slender tower beyond it. Another ruined building with a tower sits behind palm trees on the left. In the foreground, dense rows of tall leafy crops fill the frame, and a figure walks beside a donkey on the dirt path near the ruins.

Other images (2)

  • Famagusta: ruined churches beyond a field of crops, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Famagusta: ruined churches beyond a field of crops, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

Ruined churches with pointed arches and towers rising behind a field of tall crops at Famagusta. Thomson marked the negative "not to be reversed".

Written on the negative

Famagusta, ruined churches, not to be reversed