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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19499i
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Two women in traditional costume, with fantastic headgear and long fingernail extensions, posing in Siamese dance attitudes on rush matting in front of some dense foliage. Similar scene to Thomson's negative number 624

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Siamese dancing girls Bears Thomson's negative number: "625"

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 19499i

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