The harbour, Hong Kong. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.

1869.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion ; glass approximately 25.5 x 30.5 cm (10 x 12 in.)

The Galatea carrying H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1870. No 3 Bears Thomson's negative number: "29"

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

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London 1873/4, vol I, pl. III, Clark Worswick and Jonathan Spence, Imperial China, London, 1979, p. 99

Wellcome Collection 18688i