Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19547i
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A man seated in an interior, holding a pipe, at his feet a leopard-skin rug. A white masking frame appears between the centre and the periphery of the photograph, around the sitter, marking the area for reproduction
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
Contributors
Lettering
Cantonese mandarin. Mandarin in mufti
Bears Thomson's negative number: "650"
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, part within the frame, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. XXII, as "A Cantonese gentleman"
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19547i
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