Foochow, Fukien province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19981i
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Description

Looking down on a long stone bridge with market-stalls on it, one with a white awning, across a still river. A town in the background. The same bridge as shown in Thomson's negative number 336, i.e. Foochow

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [xiii]

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 19981i

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