Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

1871.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

Mountain gorge, Formosa, mountain stream between Kas-sanpo and Laulong, Formosa, 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "413"

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. XXIV, fig. 51 "A mountain pass in Formosa"

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London, 1898, f.p. 104 "Mountain gorge, island of Formosa"

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 131

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

Wellcome Collection 19076i