Lalung, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

Mountain gorge, Formosa, between Kar-san-po and Lang-long, Formosa, 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "411" bis

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. I, pl. XXIV, fig. 51 "A mountain pass in Formosa"

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London, 1898, f.p. 104 "Mountain gorge, island of Formosa"

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 131

Wellcome Collection 19077i