Saigon, Vietnam: tombs. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19929i
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Description

Stone structures on the left, in a plain with outcrops of natural rock. Similar monuments to that shown in Thomson's negative number 1094, i.e. in the cemetery containing the tomb of Pierre Pigneau de Béhaine, Bishop of Adran in Turkey and Apostolic Vicar of Cochin China

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

Cochin Chinese tombs Bears Thomson's negative number: "1095"

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 19929i

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