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

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

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Wellcome Collection 19803i

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