Foochow, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19337i
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Description

Urn-shaped containers leaning against a wall in front of a little building high above a town. The spreading branches of a tree on the left hand side. The same place as Thomson's negative number 345 [?]

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Chinese coffins awaiting interment Bears Thomson's negative number: "541"

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 19337i

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