Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a group of labourers, posed among the ruins of the Chapel of the Sisters of Mercy at Tientsin. Captions for prints 7 and 8 have been inadvertantly transposed (see note at print 7).
A Pekingese peep-show. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene, with a group gathered round a peep-show apparatus: 'The peep-show also ... enjoys a large share of public favour. It is fitted with a series of lenses in front, through which the eye of the spectator beholds the wonders of the world. For...
A Pekingese costermonger. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Street scene in Beijing, showing a vegetable seller calling his wares: 'This man carries his shop on his shoulders; and we see him here informing the dwellers in a narrow lane that he has brought to their doors the choicest grapes of the season. When ...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of two Manchu women, apparently the same figures seen in print 33.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Full-length seated studio portrait, against a plain backdrop, of a Manchu woman, attended by her maid, who is arranging her hair, and with a young child standing on the left.