Nanking, Kiangsu province, China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

1871

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph

Statues at Ming tombs, Nanking Bears Thomson's negative number: "503"

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

Wellcome Collection 19262i