Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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18871i
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Pearl River, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Buddhist monastery at the foot of a mountain. The same building as in Thomson's negatives numbers 305 and 307. The buildings are raised on brick piers, some have open balconies. On the right of the group is a storehouse. Fishing nets are drying on the near bank, a boat in the extreme right hand lower corner

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1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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N branch Pearl river Kwan Yin cave temple Signed in the negative Bears Thomson's negative number: "306"

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 18871i

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