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

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

Amoy woman Bears Thomson's negative number: "747"

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, London, 1873-4, vol 2, pl. X, fig. 31, "Shanghai woman 1869"

Wellcome Collection 19751i