Janus: Cobham Collection

RCS/Cobham/Y3018B contains:
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17	The Main Street, Limassol [i.e. Lemesós]
18	The Main Street in Limassol [i.e. Lemesós]
19	Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
20	Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta] Harbour
21	Ruins at Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
22	The front of St Katherine's Church (Now a mosque). Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
23	Entrance to the Cathedral, Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
24	A rock-cut tomb. Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
25	Group at Avgoru [? Avgorou]
26	The Village Priest, Avgoru [? Avgorou]
27	A Cypriote Boy
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Cobham Collection

Title	The front of St Katherine's Church (Now a mosque). Famagosta [i.e. Famagusta]
Reference	Y3018B/22
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

Content and context

179 x 119 mm. Autotype. A view showing the west front of St Nicholas' Cathedral (Thomson's use of the name St Katherine for the church has not been found elsewhere, and he may be confusing the Church with St Katherine's, Nicosia, also turned into a mosque): 'The tower on the left is Turkish, and tells us at once that the splendid old cathedral pile has been transformed into a mosque; a motley range of modern hovels have also grown up under the shadow of the church. On the left, for example, stands one of the most imposing specimens of the present architecture of the place. It is a café, propped upon an old Gothic porch and adorned with a flagstaff' (Thomson 1879, vol.2, p.48).

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