China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19515i
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A wooden statue representing a deity, with a grotesque face and real hair under a head-dress, with smaller model figures in front of it. Travelling in a decorated car as part of a procession [?], blurred figures in the foreground at the base of the frame
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
Contributors
Lettering
Chinese joss
Bears Thomson's negative number: "633"
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 19515i
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