China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1869
Reference:
19514i
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Description

A wooden statue representing a deity, with a grotesque face and real hair under a head-dress, with smaller model figures in front of it. Travelling in a decorated car as part of a procession [?], blurred figures in the foreground at the base of the frame

Publication/Creation

1869

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Chinese joss Bears Thomson's negative number: "633"

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19514i

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