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

  • John Thomson
Date:
1981
Reference:
19653i
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Two women seated in a room either side of a tea-table on which they lean their elbows. Both of them have elaborate hair styles and excessively elongated nails on the third and fourth fingers of their left hands

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Lettering

Manchu ladies Bears Thomson's negative number: "702"

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 19653i

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