Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

1869

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

Canton Boat woman Bears Thomson's negative number: "685"

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. VII, "A Canton boat woman and child"

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

Wellcome Collection 19612i