Pepohoan Women; Mode of Carrying Child; Costume of Baksa Women; Lakoli
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. IV from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 12.6 × 11.5 cm (5 × 4 9/16 in.); Upper right image: 12.5 × 9.7 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in.); Lower left image: 12.6 × 10.1 cm (5 × 4 in.); Lower right image: 12.5 × 10 cm (4 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Album page: 47.1 × 34.4 cm (18 9/16 × 13 9/16 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236478
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...