Rolling Scented Caper and Gunpowder Teas; Weighing Tea for Exportation; A Tea House, Canton; A Tea-Tasting Room, Canton
c. 1868
Medium
Collotype, pl. XXI from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
Dimensions
Upper left image: 10.4 × 9.3 cm (4 1/8 × 3 11/16 in.); Upper right image: 10.4 × 9.3 cm (4 1/8 × 3 11/16 in.); Lower left: 9.7 × 10.8 cm (3 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.); Lower right: 9.7 × 8.9 cm (3 7/8 × 3 9/16 in.); Album page: 47 × 34.8 cm (18 9/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
236399
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...