A Whiff of the Opium Pipe at Home; After Dinner; Reading for Honours; The Toilet
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. X from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 12.6 × 10 cm (5 × 3 15/16 in.); Upper right image: 12.5 × 10.4 cm (4 15/16 × 4 1/8 in.); Lower left image: 12.5 × 10 cm (4 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Lower right image: 12.3 × 10.5 cm (4 7/8 × 4 3/16 in.); Album page: 47.1 × 35.1 cm (18 9/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236388
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...