Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19617i
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Description

A young woman wearing a headscarf, seated in front of a plain backdrop. The same as Thomson's negative number 686, probably one half of a stereo pair. The same woman as in Thomson's negative number 675, but wearing a different headscarf

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Bears Thomson's negative number: "686a"

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 19617i

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