images courtesy Cayetana & Anthony JP Meyer
In a Photographic Sense: Images of Art in the British Museum, by Stephen Thomson: The prints are published in Kaos Parcours des Mondes catalogue 2006 with an original text by Virginia-Lee Webb, Ph. D. Research Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Thomson's albumen original prints are included in the seven volume series, Catalogue Series of Photographs from the Collection of The British Museum, published by W.A Mansell & Co, London from 1872. The sculptures in Thomson's photographs include many of the world's finest examples of Pacific art and come from famous Henry Christy's Collection, which was offered to The British Museum on his death in 1865.
Kaos: Parcours des mondes 5th Edition - Paris
Arts d'Afrique, des Amériques, d'Asie et d'Océanie
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
13th - 17th september 2006Exhibition of Photography
Grande Masse des Beaux-Arts
1 rue Jacques Callot
75006 Paris
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