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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19587i
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A woman [left] and man posed in front of a plain background sheet in a makeshift studio. The woman is wearing an elaborate headdress with beaded tassels hanging down over her face. The man wears a shiny conical hat. The same couple as shown in Thomson's negative number 671

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Lettering

Canton, bride and bridegroom Bears Thomson's negative number: "672"

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

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. I, pl. XV,

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19587i

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