Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19709i
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Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Two men seated by the kerbside, one examining the other's foot. They are overlooked by a third man smoking a pipe, who looks out of the window of a house. Thomson seems to have mislabelled this negative: see his published legend

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

Curio-dealers Bears Thomson's negative number: "727"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol IV, pl. XI, fig. 26, "A Pekingese Chiropodist. A travelling chiropodist, operating upon a corn and dressing the toe-nails of a customer: while a second patient waits placidly until his own turn arrives, smoking the pipe of peace from an open window ..."

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 19709i

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