Metadata for RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018B-026 (RCS Y3018B/26)
| Identifier: | RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018B-026 |
| Creator: | Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer |
| Title: | The Village Priest, Avgoru [? Avgorou] |
| Description: | 89 x 113 mm. Woodburytype. A fine half-length portrait of the bearded village priest of Avgoru. The photograph appears in Thomson's 'Through Cyprus with the camera, in the autumn of 1878' (vol.2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879). Thomson wrote: 'Touching the resources of a papa, or village priest, I was informed by a simple villager that the priest of his parish was a man of wealth, his income would not fall far short of ten shillings a week. Even during our brief stay in the place, we saw quite enough to satisfy us that the pastor represented in this illustration was held in high veneration among his flock, and, so far as we ourselves were concerned, the kindness and courtesy of his welcome left nothing to be desired' (vol.2, p.52). |
| Date created from: | 1878 |
| Date created to: | 1878 |
| Coverage spatial: | Famagusta (Asia, Cyprus); Gazimagusa (Asia, Northern Cyprus) |
| Contributor: | Cobham, Claude Delaval, 1842-1915 |
| Source: | RCS Y3018B/26 |
| Is part of: | RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018B. |
| DCMIType: | Image |
| Medium: | image/jpeg |
| Extent: | 166KB |
| Dimension X: | 436 |
| Dimension Y: | 557 |
| 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 |