[Dogs]
1865
![[Dogs] by John Thomson](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/dogs-728248.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image (a): 5 3/16 × 3 15/16 in. (13.1 × 10 cm) Image (b): 4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (10.8 × 10.8 cm); round Image (c): 5 3/16 × 3 15/16 in. (13.1 × 10 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.583 (137b–d)
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...