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  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: three Manchu ladies inside a courtyard, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Three Chinese Ladies, Peking, Penchili province, China.
  • Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
  • People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • Fukien province, China: women tea plantation workers. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A person holding large flowers, glancing to the side.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A person holding large flowers, glancing to the side.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Wilfred Watson in drag. Photographic postcard.
  • Wilfred Watson in drag. Photographic postcard.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, China: a seated Manchu lady wearing a coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, China: a seated Manchu lady wearing a coiffure. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Two men, one in drag, sitting opposite each other.
  • China: a Manchu lady with a child, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: a Manchu lady with a child, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: two Cantonese boat women,. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: two Cantonese boat women,. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China: a lady holding a parasol. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • A young woman, posing naked in a classical attitude, against a square column in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1890/1910.
  • Viola Hamilton, posing in a classical attitude against a square column.