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John Thomson — Boat Girls; A Canton Boatwoman and Child; Musicians; Musicians
John Thomson

Boat Girls; A Canton Boatwoman and Child; Musicians; Musicians

1868

Arranged in multiple vignettes, this collotype captures the vital role of waterborne communities in Pearl River commerce and daily life in 1860s Canton.

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

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John Thomson, Boat Girls; A Canton Boatwoman and Child; Musicians; Musicians, 1868

Arranged in multiple vignettes, this collotype captures the vital role of waterborne communities in Pearl River commerce and daily life in 1860s Canton.

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

Related themes

Monochrome, China, 19th Century, Documentary Photography, Historical, Daily Life, Portrait, British, Ethnographic, Collotype

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Art Institute of Chicago, Cleveland Museum of Art