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John Thomson — View of the Great Wall, China
John Thomson

View of the Great Wall, China

1871

Captured during Thomson's pioneering photographic expedition through China, representing some of the earliest Western documentation of the Great Wall using the challenging wet plate collodion process.

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albumen print from wet collodion negative

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