China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19683i
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A woman with an elaborate hairstyle, wearing an embroidered jacket with long wide sleeves. She is seated, posed to the left, looking to the front, against a light-toned background
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
Contributors
Lettering
Manchu lady
Bears Thomson's negative number: "714"
References note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol IV, pl. VIII, fig. 18, "Manchu female coiffure"
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 19683i
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