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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19721i
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Description

Three people standing outside by a brick wall, two to the right hand side holding flat circular banners up on poles. Seems identical to Thomson's negative number 731, probably one half of a stereo pair

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Funeral bannermen, Peking Bears Thomson's negative number: "731a"

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

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl. XIV, 38, "Funeral bannermen"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19721i

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