Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1866.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19961i
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A well-dressed man sitting cross-legged on a chair of European design. Taken outside, against a plain background, with drapes behind him to the left of the picture

Publication/Creation

1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Siamese noble, 1866, Mum (Rachaday ?) 19 1866 Signed in the negative Bears Thomson's negative number: "1111"

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 19961i

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