Yuen Ming Yuen, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • John Thomson
Date:
1981
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19245i
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A lateral view of a gigantic building with double dog-leg steps, taken from a distance. Weeds growing through cracks in the pavement, rubble all around. With a lion-dog statue in the left foreground

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

At Yuen-ming-Yuen, China Bears Thomson's negative number: "494"

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 19245i

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