Swatow (Shantou), Kwangtung (Guangdong) province, China: a girl. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1869
- Reference:
- 19884i
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Description
A girl with an elaborate coiffure, wearing a white costume, standing against a screen. A three-quarter length view. Despite facing the camera, her eyes are shying away from it. Her clasped hands further convey her nervousness. Unlike the portrait head of this girl (Thomson's no. 810), she appears here more as an individual than as a mere display of a type of hair coiffure
Publication/Creation
1869
Physical description
1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph ; glass approximately 10.5 x 21.5 cm (4 x 8 in.)
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Swatow girl
Bears Thomson's negative number: "809"
References note
China through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872, Beijing: Beijing World Art Museum, 2009, p. (reproduced)
Notes
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
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19884i
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Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request Note