The Fukien Temple, Ningpo. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the temple courtyard towards one of the shrines: 'Among the chief attractions of the town of Ningpo, is the Tien-how-kung, or 'Queen of Heaven' Temple, the meeting house of the Fukien Guild. I have chosen this edifice as the frontispiece of t...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) View of figures posed in the outer porch of a temple: 'Skilfully modelled images, the size of life, are here seen guarding the portals, and my lean chair-bearers are also pictured gambling with an itinerant fruit-seller.'
Kwanyin Temple, Puto Island. Photographer: Thomson, John
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across a bridge towards monastery buildings on Putuo Island in the Zhou shan archipelago: 'Puto is one among a group of more than one hundred islands which stud the Chusan Archipelago. With the single exception of Puto, all the rest of these isles a...
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of European buildings, with an obelisk in the foreground: 'No. 9 shows the style of buildings at the southern extremity of the Bund, and the state of the ground fronting it in 1869.'
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a section of the waterfront of Jiujiang: 'The buildings in the background ... comprise the house and offices of Messrs. Russell and Co., a firm whose splendid steamers have contributed greatly to develope the traffic on the Yangtsze. In the foregro...