Bangkok, Siam (Thailand): a seated monk and a boy wearing regalia. Photograph by John Thomson, 1865.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1865
- Reference:
- 19484i
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Description
Left, a Buddhist monk with shaven head seated on a Chinese granite stool and holding a circular monk's fan (talapat). Next to him stands a boy wearing regalia similar to that worn for the tonsurate ceremony. They are portrayed on the verandah of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha ((Wat Phra K̄æo) in Bangkok (the same location as in Thomson's negatives numbered 616-618). For further details see Paisarn Piemmettawat, loc. cit. Presumably the original of Thomson's negatives numbered 616 and 617
Publication/Creation
1865
Physical description
1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph
Contributors
Lettering
Siamese priest and royal pupil
Bears Thomson's negative number: "618"
References note
Paisarn Piemmettawat, Siam through the lens of John Thomson 1865-66, including Angkor and coastal China, Bangkok: River Books, 2015, p. 93
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 19484i
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