Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19589i
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Description

A small schoolboy with a long pig-tail, holding a book in his left hand, a board or slate in his right

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Canton school boy Gow Bears Thomson's negative number: "673"

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. I, pl. IV, fig. 5, "A Chinese School Boy"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19589i

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