The harbour, Hong Kong. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

1981

1 photograph : photoprint

The Galatea carrying H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, 1870. No 3 Bears Thomson's negative number: "29"

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London 1873/4, vol I, pl. III, Clark Worswick and Jonathan Spence, Imperial China, London, 1979, p. 99

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

Wellcome Collection 18689i