Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19471i
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An elephant kneeling down, with a man [mahout] kneeling on its back, holding a long stick. A boy by the head of the elephant, several onlookers to the right hand side. The whole scene is within a walled enclosure [at the Grand Palace?]

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

War elephant of Siam, 1866 Signed on negative Bears Thomson's negative number: "610"

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 19471i

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