Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Photograph·19764i

Women and children in a room

Women and children standing and sitting in a bare mud-walled room with a wooden latticed window at right
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19764i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Several women and children are gathered in a plain room with pale plastered walls. Two women stand at left, one with a dark head covering, and a seated woman with a striped headscarf sits beside a small child. At right, a woman sits holding a woven basket, and a blurred figure is at the lower right edge. A carved wooden window grille is set into the right wall, and the floor is bare earth.

Other images (2)

  • Women and children in a room, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Women and children in a room, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

Women and children in a plain room with a wooden window grille, some seated with baskets. Thomson wrote "Cyprian women" in pencil on the plate. Negative 753 shows the same room at Lefka.

Written on the negative

Cyprian women