A Hong-Kong Sedan Chair; A Chineses School-Boy; A Chinese Girl; A Hong-Kong Artist
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. IV from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 10.8 × 10 cm (4 5/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Upper right image: 10.8 × 7.7 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in.); Lower left: 10.6 × 8.5 cm (4 3/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236382
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...