China: a Manchu lady with a child, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1869
Reference:
19650i
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Description

A woman with an elaborate hairstyle, and a child, standing on a fine carpet in front of a plain screen in the open air. The child is holding a flower. The setting is the same as Thomson's negative 708. The woman and the child face one other in front of a screen inside a courtyard. The woman wears a beautiful silk robe. They are photographed at full length in part because Thomson wanted to show that 'the full robes of a Chinese lady or gentleman of the better classes are highly picturesque, and remarkable also for the richness and beauty of their materials'

Publication/Creation

1869

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Manchu lady and child Bears Thomson's negative number: "701"

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

References note

China through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872, Beijing: Beijing World Art Museum, 2009, p. 40 (reproduced)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19650i

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