Workers on the "Silent Highway"
Catalogue
- Year
- 1881
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.3 × 8.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- John Thomson
Artist
John Thomson was a British photographer and explorer active in the mid to late nineteenth century, known for documentary photography of East Asia and the Near East. Working primarily in albumen and carbon print processes, he produced extensive photographic surveys of China, Cambodia, and Egypt that combined ethnographic observation with landscape documentation. His work represents a significant archive of late-colonial visual culture and demonstrates the technical refinement possible within large-format field photography of the period.
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Macao
1963 · Collotype, pl. XXIII from the album "Illustrations of China and its People, Volume I" (1873)
The Seller of Shell-Fish
1881 · Woodburytype, plate 18 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
The Water-Cart
1881 · Woodburytype, plate 11 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
The Street Locksmith
1881 · Woodburytype, plate 17 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
"Mush-Fakers" and Ginger-Beer Makers
1881 · Woodburytype, plate 12 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
Covent Garden Labourers
1881 · Woodburytype, plate 3 in the book "Street Incidents" (1881)
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- John Thomson
- Year
- 1881
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 11.3 × 8.8 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.); Page/mount: 27.7 × 21.3 cm (10 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1881-024440
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified