Metadata for RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018B-027 (RCS Y3018B/27)
| Identifier: | RCSPC-COBHAM-Y3018B-027 |
| Creator: | Thomson, John, 1837-1921, photographer |
| Title: | A Cypriote boy |
| Description: | 90 x 110 mm. Woodburytype. A half-length portrait of a young boy. The portrait 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: 'The boy represented in the second picture is the son of the priest of Avgoru [? Avgorou]. The higher dignitaries of the Greek Church are not permitted to marry; but the papa may be wedded, subject to the condition that the union was effected before his consecration, and that in the event of the death of his wife he shall not marry a second time' (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/27 |
| Is part of: | RCS Photograph Collection, Cobham Collection, Y3018B. |
| DCMIType: | Image |
| Medium: | image/jpeg |
| Extent: | 166KB |
| Dimension X: | 437 |
| Dimension Y: | 545 |
| 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 |