Mom Rachothai (Mom Rajawongse Kratai Issarangkul), interpreter to the court of Siam (Thailand). Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1866
Reference:
19960i
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M. R. Kratai (1820-1867), interpreter on the Thai ambassadorial mission to London in 1857, and author. He sits cross-legged on a chair of European design. Photographed outside, against a plain background, with drapes behind him to the left of the picture. For further details see Paisarn Piemmettawat, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

1866.

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in.)

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Siamese noble, 1866, Mum Rachaday 19 1866. J. Thomson pho.r Signed on the negative Bears Thomson's negative number: "1111"

References note

Paisarn Piemmettawat, Siam through the lens of John Thomson 1865-66, including Angkor and coastal China, Bangkok: River Books, 2015, pp. 50-51

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 19960i

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