A Canton Pawn Shop; Honam Temple, Canton; Temple of Five Hundred Gods, Canton; The Abbot of the Temple
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. XVIII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions
Each image: 11.2 × 9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Album page: 47 × 34.9 cm (18 9/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236396
About the Artist
John Thomson · 1837–1921
John Thomson (1837–1921), a pioneering Scottish photographer, was born on 14 June 1837 in Edinburgh as the eighth of nine children to William Thomson, a tobacco spinner and trader, and Isabella Newlands.) After schooling in the early 1850s, he apprenticed with a local optical and scientific instrument manufacturer, where he mastered the principles of photography, completing his training around 185...