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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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
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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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