View of Six-Mile Rock and the harbour of Amoy (now Xiamen Island), Fukien (now Fujian) Province, China

People:

John Thomson (photographer)

Title:

View of Six-Mile Rock and the harbour of Amoy (now Xiamen Island), Fukien (now Fujian) Province, China

Date:

published 1873

Description:

This photograph of Amoy (now Xiamen) was taken from Kulangsu (now Gulangyu) Island (Thomson, vol. ii, n.p.).

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 photomechanical print(s)

Technique and media:

Collotype

Dimensions:

composition: 14 × 30,1 cm (5 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 47,2 × 35,4 cm (18 9/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1979:0603.02:038

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

numbered - in typescript, in white ink, in the image, lower left: "37"

Location:

Xiamen; Fujian Sheng; China;

Subject:

topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

sampans
harbour
treaty port
masts
concession
merchant vessels

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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