Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: two Amoy women in conversation. Photograph by John Thomson, 1870.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1871
- Reference:
- 19722i
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Two women, seated on wicker chairs, one leaning forward to the other one. The older one wearing a patch on her temple enjoys the tittle-tattle of daily life; but the seemingly friendly nurse might in reality be somewhat cunning and duplicitous
Publication/Creation
1871.
Physical description
1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph
Contributors
Lettering
Amoy gossips, Amoy 1871
Bears Thomson's negative number: "732"
Notes
This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921
References note
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. II, pl. XIV, fig. 38. "Amoy women"
China through the lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872, Beijing: Beijing World Art Museum, 2009, p. 110 (reproduced)
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19722i
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