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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19733i
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Description

Five women on a path outside a house, three standing, two sitting. All have exotic hairstyles, one seated on the right hand side has her back to the camera

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Amoy women 49 Bears Thomson's negative number: "737"

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. II pl. XX fig. 49. "Foochow Field Women."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19733i

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