Actors, Ancient Marriage Costume; Actors, Ancient Marriage Costume; Ancient Costumes
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. XI from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 12 × 9.1 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.); Upper right image: 12 × 9.1 cm (4 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.); Lower left image: 11.9 × 7.7 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/16 in.); Lower right image: 11.9 × 7.8 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Album page: 47.1 × 34.8 cm (18 9/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236485
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...