Macao, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1870.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
18841i
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Description

Looking down a sloping street, a building with many overhanging cultivated plants on the right hand side. Several people looking on, exhibiting various degrees of interest

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

A street in Macao Bears Thomson's negative number: "289"

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 18841i

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