Temple of Confucius (Kong Miao), Peking: Hall of Great Accomplishment (Dachengdian), interior with altar and tablet to Confucius. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

Confucian altar Bears Thomson's negative number: "638"

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

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl. XIV, fig. 36, "The Great Confucian Altar, Peking"

Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese art, London 1904, vol. 1, pl. 33

Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 18, pp. 88-89

Wellcome Collection 19525i