Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph, 1981, after a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Takow forts Bears Thomson's negative number: "417"

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 73 (as Fort Provintia in Taiwanfu, later Tainan, in Taiwan, owing to earlier cataloguing as Takow in Taiwan)

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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