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John Thomson — Amoy Women; The Small Foot of a Chinese Lady; Amoy Men; Male and Female Costume, Amoy
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Amoy Women; The Small Foot of a Chinese Lady; Amoy Men; Male and Female Costume, Amoy

1868

Gender, fashion, and cultural practices intersect in these portraits from Amoy, including documentation of foot binding that provides crucial historical evidence of 19th-century Chinese social customs.

Medium
Collotype, pl. XIV from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)

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John Thomson, Amoy Women; The Small Foot of a Chinese Lady; Amoy Men; Male and Female Costume, Amoy, 1868

Gender, fashion, and cultural practices intersect in these portraits from Amoy, including documentation of foot binding that provides crucial historical evidence of 19th-century Chinese social customs.

Medium
Collotype, pl. XIV from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume II" (1873)
Year
1868
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, Asian, Documentary Photography, Scottish, Costume, Portrait, Informative, Ethnographic, Collotype

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