A Canton Pawn Shop; Honam Temple, Canton; Temple of Five Hundred Gods, Canton; The Abbot of the Temple

1868

Arranged as a composite collotype, these four scenes provide an intimate glimpse into Canton's religious and commercial life, demonstrating Thomson's ethnographic approach to photography.

Medium: Collotype, pl. XVIII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)

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