Beggars at the Gate of a Temple, Canton

Attributed to John Thomson British, Scottish

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From 1868 to 1872, Thomson assembled his masterful documentation of China, published after he returned to Britain as Foochow and the River Min (1873) and the four-volume Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-74). Thomson's extensive travels took him throughout the Foochow region, on a three-thousand mile journey along the Yangzi, and to the western plains of Taiwan and the southern port cities of Canton and Hong Kong, often with his dog as his only companion. His subjects varied extensively as well, from peasants to royalty and rural villages to grand palaces.

Beggars at the Gate of a Temple, Canton, Attributed to John Thomson (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1837–1921 London), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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