Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

Mountain stream between La-lung and Ka-san-po, Formosa, 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "412"

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

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London, 1898, p. 130, "Here we halted awhile to admire the loveliness of the mountain gorges, and to obtain a photograph of the scene."

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 133

Wellcome Collection 19079i