Putu, Hupeh province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, ca. 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19401i
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Description

Cultivated plants in the foreground, people standing on a large stepped bridge in the middle ground. Houses nearby, mountains in the background

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

China, Buddhist island of Putu Bears Thomson's negative number: "575"

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. III pl. VII, fig. 15 "Kwan Yin Temple, Puto Island"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19401i

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