Taku forts, near Tianjin, north-eastern China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

1871.

1 photograph : glass photonegative, wet collodion : stereograph ; glass approximately 10.5 x 21.5 cm (4 x 8 in.)

Takow forts Bears Thomson's negative number: "417"

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

R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 73 (as Fort Provintia in Taiwanfu, later Tainan, in Taiwan, owing to earlier cataloguing as Takow in Taiwan)

Wellcome Collection 19086i