Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19843i
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About this work

Description

A painter, at work on a group portrait, with other studies on the wall behind him. A pipe on a small table to his side. Similar to Thomson's negative number 789

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Chinese artist. A Hong Kong artist Bears Thomson's negative number: "789a"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol I pl. IV "A Hong Kong Artist"

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 19843i

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