Metadata for RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-008 (RCS Y3018A/8)
| Identifier: | RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-008 |
| Creator: | Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer |
| Title: | Selling bread |
| Description: | 85 x 107 mm. Woodburytype. A portrait of an old woman seated on a chair, with a basket on her lap. The portrait is in Thomson's 'Through Cyprus with the camera, in the autumn of 1878' (vol.1, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879). The photograph is annotated: 'In the features of this old dame, who earns her living by selling bread in Larnaca, there still linger traces of youthful comeliness. Her thin locks are silvered with age, and the years, as they dragged heavily along, have furrowed her brow. Yet her eye is clear and bright and wears a look of calm contentment ... She might, indeed, pass for an old Scotch crone ...' (Vol.1, p.7). |
| Date created from: | 1878 |
| Date created to: | 1878 |
| Coverage spatial: | Lárnax (Asia, Cyprus, Larnaca) |
| Contributor: | Cobham, Claude Delaval, 1842-1915 |
| Source: | RCS Y3018A/8 |
| Is part of: | RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018A. |
| DCMIType: | Image |
| Medium: | image/jpeg |
| Extent: | 162KB |
| Dimension X: | 420 |
| Dimension Y: | 535 |
| Dimension units: | Pixels |
| Resolution: | 72 dpi |
| Bit depth: | 24 bit |
| Colour space: | Adobe RGB 1998 |
| Compression type: | JPEG |
| Compression ratio: | Quality 9 |
| Camera body: | Mamiya RB |
| Camera back: | Leaf Valeo 11 Digital |
| Lighting: | 1000w Bowens Flash Heads |
| Lens: | Mamiya 50mm f/4.5 Wide Angle Lens |
| ISO: | 25 |
| Aperture: | F/16 |
| ShutterSpeed: | 1/125 |
| Digitised by: | SM. Photography Department. Cambridge University Library. |
| Publisher: | Royal Commonwealth Society Library. Cambridge University Library. University of Cambridge. |
| Rights: | Copyright Cambridge University Library. |
| Date Digitised: | 2003-10-24 |