Badaling, Pechili province, China: part of the Great Wall of China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

The Great Wall Bears Thomson's negative number: "571"

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. IV, pl XXIV, "The Great Wall of China"

Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 60, pp. 145-146

Wellcome Collection 19393i