Inscribed: ‘Bella Pais Abbey, Kyrenia’
F. Milverton Drake was invited to Cyprus by the administration as an engineer to help with a project. Drake gave special attention to the fortification of Famagusta and Nicosia. The artist excelled himself in pencil drawings rather than watercolours.
This watercolour depicts a north-eastern view of Bellapais Abbey in which a young girl sitting awkwardly on a mound of stones forms a stark juxtaposition between the ancient and the modern.
PNT-00182 > Francis Milverton Drake (b. 1882), Bella Paise Abbey, Kyrenia, Watercolour, 19x25 cm, ca. 1934
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