Part of Foochow Foreign Settlement; Terracing Hills; Foochow Field Women; A Memorial Arch
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. XX from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 11 × 12.3 cm (4 3/8 × 4 7/8 in.); Upper right image: 11 × 12.3 cm (4 3/8 × 4 7/8 in.); Lower left image: 11.6 × 12.3 cm (4 5/8 × 4 7/8 in.); Lower right image: 11.5 × 12.4 cm (4 9/16 × 4 15/16 in.); Album page: 34.5 × 47.2 cm (13 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236494
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...