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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19585i
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A man and a woman, each standing against a white background in a makeshift studio. Two separate negatives on one plate. The woman is on the left, wearing an elaborate headdress with beaded tassels hanging down over her face. The man wears a shiny conical hat. The same couple as shown in Thomson's negative number 672

Publication/Creation

1981

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1 photograph : photoprint

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Bride and bridegroom, Canton Bears Thomson's negative number: "671"

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. I, pl. XV, "A bride and bridegroom"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19585i

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