Photograph·19012i

Kyrenia seen from the hills

Steep wooded hillside with rocky outcrops in the foreground, looking across a hazy distant plain toward Kyrenia. — Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19012i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

In the foreground a steep slope rises to the right, covered with shrubs, olive-like trees and bare rocky outcrops. On the left a pale earth bank drops toward a valley of scattered trees. The middle distance opens onto a flat hazy plain, with the built-up area of Kyrenia faintly visible on the far horizon beneath a pale sky.

Other images (2)

1981 contact print
The glass negative

English

A view from the scrub-covered hills above Kyrenia, with the town faint on the plain below. Part of Thomson's note on the negative cannot be read. 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

Kyrenia from ... hills. Not to be reversed

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