Cochin China [Vietnam]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1867.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19921i
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A vegetable garden with a girl watering plants from panniers. An older pregnant woman with a baby in her arms watching from the shade of a tree on the left. A house in the background to the left. A well to the right with a tree bent over as a counterbalance for the bucket

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

Cochin Chinese farmhouse Bears Thomson's negative number: "1091"

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19921i

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