[Studio Portrait: Two Men each Holding Bamboo, Singapore]
John Thomson
1860s
![[Studio Portrait: Two Men each Holding Bamboo, Singapore] by John Thomson](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/studio-portrait-two-men-each-holding-bamboo-764800.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9.3 x 6.0 cm Mount: 9.6 x 6.2 cm
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017
Accession Number
2017.69.5
Tags
MenPortraits
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...