Photograph·19762i

Nicosia: a group of men by a column and a stone wall

Seven men seated and standing against a stone wall and a fluted column in a cobbled street.
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19762i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

A group of seven men pose in a cobbled street against a wall of large dressed stone blocks. Some sit on a low stone ledge and some lean or stand beside a tall fluted column on the right. A younger man in a white shirt holds a jug, and a boy with a basket on his head stands at left. Another man stands in the distance on the left.

Other images (2)

  • Nicosia: a group of men by a column and a stone wall, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Nicosia: a group of men by a column and a stone wall, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

A posed group of men in a street in Nicosia, seated and standing against a wall of large dressed blocks beside a tall fluted column; one holds a jug, and a boy carries a basket on his head. The 1981 print is the mirror image of the positive from the negative: one of the two is reversed left to right.