Front of Kwan-Yin Temple, Hong-Kong; A Mendicant Priest; A Street in Hong-Kong; Opium-Smoking in a Restaurant

Front of Kwan-Yin Temple, Hong-Kong; A Mendicant Priest; A Street in Hong-Kong; Opium-Smoking in a Restaurant

John Thomson

c. 1868

Accession Number

236387

Medium

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

Dimensions

Upper left image: 11.4 × 9.7 cm (4 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.); Upper right image: 11.5 × 9.6 cm (4 9/16 × 3 13/16 in.); Lower left image: 11.4 × 9.7 cm (4 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.); Lower right image: 11.6 × 9.7 cm (4 5/8 × 3 7/8 in.); Album page: 47.1 × 35.1 cm (18 9/16 × 13 7/8 in.)

Classification

photography

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mr. George R. Rinhart, and Charles C. Cunningham, Samuel P. Avery Endowment