Bellapais Abbey, near Kyrenia, Cyprus. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1878.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19019i
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Scrubland with ruins of the mediaeval abbey at foot of the hills to the right

Publication/Creation

1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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(Palotzea ?) monastery. To be reversed. (Palalyse ?) (native name) Bears Thomson's negative number: "383"

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 19019i

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