Paphos, Cyprus. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19027i
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Description

View of the inside of a cavernous tomb, looking out. On the left, a (living) man squatting on a ledge. On the right, a shaft of sunlight from the mouth of the tomb

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Entrance to a tomb Paphos Cyprus Bears Thomson's negative number: "387"

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19027i

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