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

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
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1981
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19805i
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Baksa, Formosa [Taiwan]. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A woman standing looking at the camera, with a young baby asleep on her hip. In the background a bamboo-framed mud wall, the same as in Thomson's negative number 771. The right-hand frame is crossed through

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint : stereograph

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Lettering

A Baksa woman and child, Formosa 1871 Bears Thomson's negative number: "772"

References note

John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people, London, 1873-4, vol. II, pl. IV, fig. 10, "Mode of carrying child"
R. Viénet, Formosa from the earth and from the air 1871-2006, Taiwan: Editions René Viénet, 2006, p. 83

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 19805i

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