Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the archway of Juyongguan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19281i
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Nankow pass, Pechili province, China: interior wall of the archway of Juyongguan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Bas-relief marble sculpture representing a large deity playing a stringed musical instrument whilst treading on his victims [?]. Adjacent panels have carved ideograms on them. Other ideograms, printed on posters, are stuck on the wall. Cf. Thomson's negatives number 511, 511a, 513a, 515, 516

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Figures on (Kiu ?) -yung-Kwai arch, Nankow Pass, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "512"

References note

Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 56, pp. 139-141

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

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Wellcome Collection 19281i

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