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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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
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1981
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1 photograph : photoprint
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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
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Wellcome Collection 19307i
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