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

1981

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Temple of 1000 gods, Canton Bears Thomson's negative number: "626"

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

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, possibly same as pl. XVIII, "Temple of the Five Hundred Gods, Canton"]

Wellcome Collection 19501i