Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 18869i
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Image reversed on disk. A Buddhist monastery at the foot of a mountain, as seen also in Thomson's negatives numbers 306 and 307. A small [retreat ?] building to the left. Four boats moored on the near shore. A slightly different view of the same mountain shown in Thomson's negative number 293
Publication/Creation
1981
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1 photograph : photoprint
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N branch Pearl river Buddhist temple Kwangtung
Bears Thomson's negative number: "305"
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 18869i
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