Badaling, Pechili province, China: part of the Great Wall of China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19393i
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Badaling, Pechili province, China: part of the Great Wall of China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A craggy landscape, with snow all around. A high pass (the Nankow Pass) between mountains, part of the Great Wall visible

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

The Great Wall Bears Thomson's negative number: "571"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl XXIV, "The Great Wall of China"
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 60, pp. 145-146

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 19393i

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