Foochow, Fukien province, China: Pagoda Island (the pagoda anchorage). Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19965i
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Description

A river scene with scrubland on the river bank in the foreground at the left. A river with moored boats large and small. On the left an island or promontory, with a pagoda on an eminence and numerous other buildings around. In the right centre on the far shore some European style buildings. In the background mountains and sky

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Bears no Thomson number, now numbered [i]

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, Through China with a camera, Westminster: A. Constable, 1898, p. 142 (description of island)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19965i

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