Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19803i
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Two women, the younger woman on the left, older woman with a pipe on right. In the background a bamboo-framed mud wall, the same as Thomson's negative number 772
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph
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Lettering
Young and old Baksa woman, Formosa, 1871
Bears Thomson's negative number: "771"
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. IV, fig. 9, "Pepohoan women"
R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 93
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19803i
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