Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19631i
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A portrait of a man seated in a chair, with a house in the background. The man has very long fingernails and a thumb ring on his right hand. The same man, wearing the same clothes, as in Thomson's negative number 692. Identified as Yi Xin (Prince Gong), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Prince of Kung, Peking, China 1872 Bears Thomson's negative number: "691"

References note

Cf Illustrations of China and its people, 18, I, I, 1, "Prince Kung"

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 19631i

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