Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • John Thomson
Date:
1871
Reference:
19842i
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A painter, at work on a group portrait, with other studies on the wall behind him. A pipe on a small table to his side. Similar to Thomson's negative number 789

Publication/Creation

1871

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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

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Chinese artist. A Hong Kong artist Bears Thomson's negative number: "789a"

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, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol I pl. IV "A Hong Kong Artist"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19842i

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