Ming tombs, Peking: the Lingendian (Hall of Prominent Favour) at Changling. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1871
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19270i
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Changling, tomb of the Yongle Emperor (1403-1425): view of a building from outside parapet, as in Thomson's negative number 498. Overgrown grassed area in the foreground

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1871

Physical description

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Lettering

Ming tombs, Chang Ling Hall Bears Thomson's negative number: "507"

Notes

This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921

References note

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, similar to no. 54, pp. 136-137

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19270i

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