Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19055i
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A courtyard with a large unrolled carpet on the right hand side. Young princes [?] sitting beside a tree. Servants [?] abasing themselves in front of a tree in the centre, also sitting cross-legged by the far wall. A shadowy figure at the extreme lower right hand corner

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

King's palace, Bangkok, 1865 Bears Thomson's negative number: "401"

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

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Wellcome Collection 19055i

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