Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19647i
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Description

Three women beside a balcony, with their backs to the camera showing their hairstyles. One of them, sitting on the balcony railing, has artificially deformed feet (to be checked by comparison with 696)

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Manchu ladies, Peking Bears Thomson's negative number: "699"

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 19647i

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