Ming tombs, Peking: the Lingendian (Hall of Prominent Favour) at Changling. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
Reference:
19271i
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Description

Changling, tomb of the Yongle Emperor (1403-1425): view of a building from outside parapet, as in Thomson's negative number 498. Overgrown grassed area in the foreground

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

Lettering

Ming tombs, Chang Ling Hall Bears Thomson's negative number: "507"

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

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, similar to no. 54, pp. 136-137

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19271i

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