Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: two Amoy women in conversation. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1871
Reference:
19722i
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Description

Two women, seated on wicker chairs, one leaning forward to the other one. The older one wearing a patch on her temple enjoys the tittle-tattle of daily life; but the seemingly friendly nurse might in reality be somewhat cunning and duplicitous

Publication/Creation

1871.

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Amoy gossips, Amoy 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "732"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. II, pl. XIV, fig. 38. "Amoy women"
China through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872, Beijing: Beijing World Art Museum, 2009, p. 110 (reproduced)

Notes

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19722i

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