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  • Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • A Buddhist master (?) sitting on a chair under a tree, with books laid out on a table, while a young pupil kneels before him. Watercolour with gouache, China (?), 1750/1850?.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Yao Wang, Chinese god of healing also known as the 'King of Medicine', wearing traditional costume and holding a medicine container (?). Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • The Chinese giant ... : The Jenner monument at Boulogne.
  • Feet of a Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot-binding. Photograph, 19--.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers load boxes of tea for export onto rafts. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • A Chinese man displaying the symptoms of 'oily' rheumatism on his scalp. Coloured line block print by Chiang Yee, after a Chinese artist, 1920/1940?.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Chinese prisoners being subjected to torture: two men are shown bound and suspended from a horizontal pole, watched by their torturer, while two others await a similar fate below. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • Correspondence between Governor of Kiangsu and Empress Dowage
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Description of the astronomical instruments, Beijing, China
  • A Chinese tea plantation with workers carrying and firing the tea. Engraving by A. Willmore, c. 1843, after T. Allom.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers are shown weaving baskets. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Agriculture: a Chinese rice plantation with workers sowing the rice, and operating a treadmill chain-bucket for water. Engraving by W. Weatherhead, c. 1840, after T. Allom.
  • [Leaflet (1827?) advertising appearances by "Two Chinese ladies" in elaborate national costume, singing and playing traditional Chinese instruments in the Grand Saloon at 94 Pall Mall, London].
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented / by J. Thomson, F.R.G.S.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man. Watercolour.
  • Chinese opium smokers in a saloon experiencing various effects of the drug. Tinted lithograph, c. 1866, after T. Allom.
  • Porcelain fruit containing couple engaged in sexual foreplay
  • Science instruments in Po-wu hsin-pien: Part 1: ch'u-chi (textbook on natural sciences)
  • A kneeling Chinese woman is subjected to torture: the woman's hands are tied above her head, while two men insert a pole between her wrists. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 1780/1880?.
  • A Chinese woman being subjected to torture while tied to a cross: blood is seen ematating from the woman's eyes and mouth and her torturer is shown standing besided her. Gouache painting on rice-paper, 18--?.
  • A tea plantation in China: workers grinding tea and rolling it into balls. Gouache, China, 1800/1850.
  • Acupuncture chart with a series of points indicated on the figure of a standing Chinese man, demonstrating acupuncture points for controlling diseases of the heart and sexual organs. Watercolour.