Janus: Cobham Collection

RCS/Cobham/Y3018A contains:
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20	A Water-carrier
21	A woman of the labouring class
22	Beggars
23	Kerynia [i.e. Kirínia] Plain, from the hills
24	Kerynia [i.e. Kirínia] Harbour
25	Kerynia [i.e. Kirínia], facing the sea
26	Kerynia [i.e. Kirínia], showing the camp of the 42nd Highlanders
27	Ancient Abbey, Belle Paix [i.e. Bellapais]. (Distant view)
28	Belle Paix, near Kerynia [i.e. Bellapais, near Kirínia]
29	Ancient Abbey, Belle Paix
30	Entrance to the Great Hall
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Cobham Collection

Title	St Sophia, Nicosia
Reference	Y3018A/15
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

177 x 115 mm. Autotype. A view looking along a street towards cathedral buildings, topped by minarets. Situated in the centre of Nicosia the Cathedral was adapted for use as a mosque after the Turkish Conquest of the island in 1570-71: 'It is fortunate that Moslem economy, or, perhaps, a lack of fanatical zeal, has preserved to us so much of this fine specimen of early Gothic architecture. The tower, which once crowned the edifice, has given place to galleried minarets; the old sonorous summons of the cathedral bells has been exchanged for muezzins [public criers], which each morning and each evening call the faithful to prayer' (Thomson 1879, vol.1, p.14).

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