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Photograph·19768i

Lefka: women at a well

Women and a man beside a well with mud-brick walls and clay jugs on the ground
Photograph: John Thomson, 1878. Wellcome Collection, London, 19768i. Public domain (Public Domain Mark).

Positive from the glass negative

Description

Two women stand at a wooden well-head, one turning its winch while the other looks on with a hand on her hip. A man in a cap stands behind them, and another figure bends over a metal basin at right. Large clay jugs stand on the stony ground beside them, with mud-brick and rubble walls behind.

Other images (2)

  • Lefka: women at a well, 1981 contact print1981 contact print
  • Lefka: women at a well, The glass negativeThe glass negative

English

Two women at a wooden well-head at Lefka, one working the winch, with a man behind them and clay water jars on the ground.

Written on the negative

Woman at a well, Lefka