Photograph·19014i

On the road from Nicosia to Kyrenia: a man with a packhorse

Rocky hillside and wide valley near Kyrenia, with a man leading a loaded packhorse on a stony track.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19014i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A stony track runs down the left foreground, where a man in a long dark garment stands beside a dark horse carrying bundles on its back. On the right, a rocky slope with scattered stones and low shrubs rises toward a ridge. Beyond, hills fall away into a broad, hazy plain under a pale sky.

Other images (2)

  • On the road from Nicosia to Kyrenia: a man with a packhorse, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • On the road from Nicosia to Kyrenia: a man with a packhorse, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

A man with a laden horse on a stony track in the hills near Kyrenia, on the road from Nicosia, with the plain below. 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

Near Kyrenia. Nicosia road to Kyrenia