Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • John Thomson
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1871
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19266i
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Stone statues of elephants, with heaps of small stones [?] on their backs. A man stands next to the left hand elephant in the foreground

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1871

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1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph ; glass approximately 10.5 x 21.5 cm (4 x 8 in.)

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Avenue of stone animals, Ming tombs Bears Thomson's negative number: "505"

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

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Wellcome Collection 19266i

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