Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, after a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19091i
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Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, after a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A snake basking on a rock in the lower centre of the frame. Another coiled around a branch at the upper right hand side. A man leaning on a rock in the centre. Compare with Thomson's negative number 425

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Lettering

Seh-luk-pau or yellow bamboo snake, most deadly. A great hanging rock at Baksa, Formosa Bears Thomson's negative number: "419"

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19091i

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