Peking, Pechili province, China: Yi Xin (Prince Gong). Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

  • John Thomson
Date:
1872
Reference:
19630i
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A portrait of a man seated in a chair, with a house in the background. The man has very long fingernails and a thumb ring on his right hand. The same man, wearing the same clothes, as in Thomson's negative number 692. Identified as Yi Xin (Prince Gong), sixth son of Emperor Daoguang

Publication/Creation

1872.

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 in.)

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Prince of Kung, Peking, China 1872 Bears Thomson's negative number: "691"

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

Cf Illustrations of China and its people, 18, I, I, 1, "Prince Kung"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19630i

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