Amoy, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870/1871.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 18963i
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Incised Chinese inscriptions on a tall smooth rock-face by the side of a stretch of water. Another smaller rock to the right hand side. A man sculling in a boat in front of the rock
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
Contributors
Lettering
Rock inscriptions Amoy view in Amoy 1871
Bears Thomson's negative number: "355"
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 1873-74, vol. p.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 18963i
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