The Temperance Sweep
John Thomson
1877
Medium
Woodburytype, from the album "Street Life in London"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 9.1 × 5.7 cm (3 5/8 × 2 1/4 in.); Mount: 25.8 × 19.4 cm (10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
215532
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...