Foochow Coolies; A Foochow Detective; The Chief of Thieves; Beggars Living in a Tour
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. XXI from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Dimensions
Each image, approx: 11.9 × 12.1 cm (4 11/16 × 4 13/16 in.); Album page: 34.8 × 47.2 cm (13 3/4 × 18 5/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236495
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...