Harbour of Hongkong; St Johns Cathedral Hongkong; Carriage; Tub Mending, North of China
ca. 1869
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image (a), (b): 3 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (9.2 × 17.5 cm) Image (c), (d): 3 7/8 × 5 13/16 in. (9.9 × 14.8 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.494.96
Tags
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...