Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19875i
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Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An enormous overturned cupola with a man standing by it. Rubble all around. A remnant of the Porcelain Pagoda, destroyed in 1853 by invaders

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Lettering

Bronze top of the (porcelain ?) pagoda Bears Thomson's negative number: "804"

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

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Wellcome Collection 19875i

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