China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19545i
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An elderly man wearing a pale silk robe, seated, holding a fan. A pipe resting in a holder and a tea-cup on a table to his left. A leopard-skin rug on the floor, behind the table a painted screen
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
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Chinese merchant mandarin China of the late empire
Bears Thomson's negative number: "649"
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 19545i
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