Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19575i
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A bald, bearded, elderly man wearing light toned garments, seated, clasping a flat circular metal object [possibly a pocket watch?] in his hand. The floor is covered with elaborate tiles, in the background are columns bearing gilded Chinese characters. A table to his left with a teacup and saucer

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Viceroy, Canton 1871. ... of the Kwang, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "665"

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

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. XIII, "Jui Lui, governor-general of two Kwang provinces" (similar photograph)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19575i

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