Head Executioner; Chief of Private Gang Capturefd Off Hong Kong; A Government Executioner, Canton
1866
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image (a): 3 7/16 × 2 5/16 in. (8.8 × 5.8 cm) Image (b): 9 11/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24.6 × 19 cm) Image (c): 3 7/16 × 2 5/16 in. (8.8 × 5.8 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 (136b–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...