Cantonese Boy; Cantonese Merchant; Mongolian Male Head; A Venerable Head; A Labourer; Mongolian Male Head
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. IX from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Dimensions
Each image, oval: 7.8 × 6 cm (3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.); Album page: 47.1 × 34.6 cm (18 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236483
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...