A Canton Trading Junk
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. VIII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 28.8 cm (5 3/8 × 11 3/8 in.); Album page: 35 × 47.1 cm (13 13/16 × 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236386
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...