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

  • John Thomson
Date:
1981
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19683i
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China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A woman with an elaborate hairstyle, wearing an embroidered jacket with long wide sleeves. She is seated, posed to the left, looking to the front, against a light-toned background

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

Manchu lady Bears Thomson's negative number: "714"

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 IV, pl. VIII, fig. 18, "Manchu female coiffure"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19683i

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