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John Thomson 
Interior of the western colonnade of a Temple at Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia 
1866 
  
Glass plate 
Wellcome Collection 
Wellcome Library, London (V0036927) 
  
 
LL/36747 
  
Bears Thomson's negative number: "466".
 
This is one of a collection of original glass negatives made by John Thomson. The negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921.
 
John Thomson, The straits of Malacca, Indo-China and China, London, 1875, p 142, with an extra figure. Judith Balmer, John Thomson, 1993, p xxxi, fig. 9, is also based on this photograph, but the figure is missing, replaced by a tiger 
 

 
  
 
  
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