Ming tombs, Peking: the Lingendian (Hall of Prominent Favour) at Changling. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19253i
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Ming tombs, Peking: the Lingendian (Hall of Prominent Favour) at Changling. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Changling, tomb of the Yongle Emperor (1403-1425): view of large building from outside. A man in the left foreground

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

The Ming Tombs, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "498"

References note

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London, 1898, before p. 273, as "Temple of Ching-tsoo, Ming tombs"
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 54, pp. 136-137

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

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Wellcome Collection 19253i

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