Sepia glass plate negative of two faint pagodas above flat fields and bare trees, with a pasted handwritten label near the centre.

China. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871

A sepia-toned glass plate negative shows two faint multi-tiered pagodas rising above a flat landscape of bare trees and fields. A paper label with handwritten notes and a small sketch of a tower is pasted near the centre, and a circled number appears at upper right.

Artist: John Thomson
Date: 1871
Medium: Wet collodion negatives Photographs
Source: Wellcome Collection
Size: 4000 × 2319 px

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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1871.
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19th century 1870s 1871 photograph china glass plate negative landscape historical photograph pagoda wet collodion negative john thomson