The harbour, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

1869.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in.)

The Galatea carrying H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1870. No 3 Bears Thomson's negative number: "29"

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London 1873/4, vol I, pl. III, Clark Worswick and Jonathan Spence, Imperial China, London, 1979, p. 99

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

Wellcome Collection 18688i