Temple of Confucius (Kong Miao), Peking: Hall of Great Accomplishment (Dachengdian), interior with altar and tablet to Confucius. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19525i
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Description

A bench type altar in front of a decorated carved dark wood screen with large characters at the top. Large vases with dried flowers on either side

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Confucian altar Bears Thomson's negative number: "638"

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, 1873-4, vol. IV, pl. XIV, fig. 36, "The Great Confucian Altar, Peking"
Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese art, London 1904, vol. 1, pl. 33
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 18, pp. 88-89

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19525i

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