Foochow, Fukien province, China: Pagoda Island (the pagoda anchorage). Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1869
Reference:
19964i
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Description

A river scene with scrubland on the river bank in the foreground at the left. A river with moored boats large and small. On the left an island or promontory, with a pagoda on an eminence and numerous other buildings around. In the right centre on the far shore some European style buildings. In the background mountains and sky

Publication/Creation

1869

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion

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Lettering

Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [i]

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

References note

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, Westminster: A. Constable, 1898, p. 142 (description of island)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19964i

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