Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19307i
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Tientsin, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Interior of a ruined church of European design, looking east, a man standing against a buttress toward the apse. A bright patch of sunlight at the extreme lower right of the frame

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Ruins of Sisters of Mercy chapel, Tientsin, China. This is where the Sisters were done to death in 1870 Bears Thomson's negative number: "525"

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 19307i

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