Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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18833i
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Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A neglected pagoda on an outcrop of rock, by a river. Not the same building shown in Thomson's negative number 286

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

18. (ringed) 2 Bears Thomson's negative number: "285"

References note

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London 1898, f.p. 82; Illustrations of China and its people, London 1873-4, vol. II, pl. vii, fig. 18 ? "A pagoda near Chao-Chowfu"

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 18833i

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