Metadata for RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-009 (RCS Y3018A/9)
| Identifier: | RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018A-009 |
| Creator: | Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer |
| Title: | A Cyprian maid |
| Description: | 89 x 110 mm. Woodburytype. A sensitive portrait of a young woman wearing a striped dress and embroidered head scarf. 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: 'The accompanying illustration may be taken as an ordinary type of the women of Cyprus ... it may be added that they dress modestly, and many of them follow the Turkish fashion of keeping the greater portion of the face covered. Some of them ... are not unworthy descendants of the Cypriote maids of classic fame. The native beauty of the race is, however, seen at its best in the children, for the women, before they have reached maturity, are sent out to work in the fields, and are thus early trained to a life of toil’ (vol.1, p.8). This fine photograph is reminiscent, in pose and feeling, to the portrait of a young Chinese labouring girl in plate 5 of: Thomson, John (1873-1874), 'Illustrations of China and its people', London: S Low, Marston, Low and Searle. |
| Date created from: | 1878 |
| Date created to: | 1878 |
| Coverage spatial: | Cyprus (Asia) |
| Contributor: | Cobham, Claude Delaval, 1842-1915 |
| Source: | RCS Y3018A/9 |
| Is part of: | RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018A. |
| DCMIType: | Image |
| Medium: | image/jpeg |
| Extent: | 173KB |
| Dimension X: | 450 |
| Dimension Y: | 561 |
| 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 |