John Thomson
1866
Interior of the western colonnade of a Temple at Nakhon Thom [Angkor Wat], Cambodia

Glass plate
Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Library, London (V0036927)
 
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
 
LL/36747