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Palm-trees on both sides, with a minaret and a tower in the distant background

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

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

Nicosia, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.

A man standing up in a cart drawn by a bullock, another man standing behind the cart. In the distance on the left a few buildings. Numbered 765 in error for 756

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

The west front of the cathedral church of St. Nicholas, Famagusta. A lesser building in the left foreground

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

View of three tympana of western doors of cathedral, with overhanging leaves concealing ruinous part above

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Report on the prevention of malaria in Cyprus / by Sir Ronald Ross ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.

Annual medical & sanitary report / Cyprus.

The composition is that of a painting by Jan Steen showing a tooth-drawer at work in a village. The extraction of teeth here represents the extraction by the imperial powers of territories from their previous occupants
As decided at the Congress of Berlin in 1878 (13 June 13 July), Great Britain assumed control of Cyprus from the Ottoman Empire, hence Distraeli is shown extracting a tooth labeled "Cyprus" from the Sultan. He is assisted by Queen Victoria and Lord Salisbury (Foreign Secretary). They are watched by Mac-Mahon (president of France) and by Fransen van de Putte, acting Prime Minister of the Netherlands, both of whom have bandages round their mouths indicating that they have had teeth extracted. The bandages are inscribed with names of things that have troubled them like bad teeth: MacMahon's bandage is labelled "Gambetta" (referring to Leon Gambetta, his Republican opponent) and Fransen van de Putte's is labelled "Atjeh" (referring to the Dutch Aceh war, a colonial war in Sumatra)
Left, Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria walks off with a sack marked "Bosnie-Herzegovina": Austria occupied those lands unilaterally in 1878. Left foreground, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who has a polar bear and a camel, is being pulled off an elephant by Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India, representing Lytton's provocation of the Second Afghan War in response to perceived Russian expansion towards Afghanistan. They are watched by Pope Leo XIII and by Bismarck, the organizer of the Berlin Congress
Right background, King Umberto of Italy in the form of an ape watches the proceedings. Right foreground, Sir Theophilus Shepstone (British Transvaal Commission) pushes President Burgers of the Transvaal in a wheelbarrow marked Via Delagoa (the railway line to Pretoria?): Shepstone had annexed the Transvaal on behalf of Great Britain against Burgers's protests

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour :image 37.4 x 54.3 cm

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Cupid wears a blindfold. His bow and arrow lie on the ground. Around him are wild flowers

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1 print : engraving ; platemark 24 x 32.7 cm

Cupid reclining asleep on a rural hillside, with an obelisk and a temple in the background; in the sky, Venus is carried in a chariot.. Engraving by C. Faucci after O. Riminaldi.

A cemetery, tombs under trees in bright sunlight

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

Nicosia, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.

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

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

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

Report on the prevention of malaria in Cyprus / by Sir Ronald Ross ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.

Annual medical & sanitary report / Cyprus.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Cupid reclining asleep on a rural hillside, with an obelisk and a temple in the background; in the sky, Venus is carried in a chariot.. Engraving by C. Faucci after O. Riminaldi.

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

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

Nicosia, Cyprus. Photograph by John Thomson, 1878.

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

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

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

Report on the prevention of malaria in Cyprus / by Sir Ronald Ross ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty.

Annual medical & sanitary report / Cyprus.

The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.

Cupid reclining asleep on a rural hillside, with an obelisk and a temple in the background; in the sky, Venus is carried in a chariot.. Engraving by C. Faucci after O. Riminaldi.

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