Bangkok, Siam [Thailand]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1865.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19039i
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View over roof-tops to Chao Phraya river. A large decorated tower in the right foreground, with an equestrian deity [?] in a niche. Similar to Thomson's negative number 395, but taken at a slightly different angle

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

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Lettering

R Menam, Bangkok, Siam Signed in negative Bears Thomson's negative number: "393"

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 19039i

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