Find thousands of books, manuscripts, visual materials and unpublished archives from our collections, many of them with free online access.
Search for free, downloadable images taken from our library and museum collections, including paintings, illustrations, photos and more.
Macao, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date
- 1981
- Reference
- 18837i
- Pictures
- Online
Available online
Licence
Public Domain Mark
You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law.
Public Domain Mark (PDM) terms and conditions https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Credit: Macao, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
Selected images from this work
About this work
Description
The preserved façade of an otherwise ruined church, with a flight of steps leading up to it. Another building to the right. A person standing at ground level, two more on the steps. The image is indistinct
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
Contributors
Lettering
Ruin of church, Macao, China, 1872
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
Lettering note
Bears Thomson's negative number: "287"
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 18837i
Type/Technique
Subjects
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesOpen Online request