Victoria & Albert Museum website, Nov 12, 2003 photography section (John Thomson, British, 1837-1921, experimented with microphotography before travelling throughout the Far East between 1862 and 1872; maintained a commercial photography studio in Singapore and Hong Kong; author of Street Life in London; later became a fashionable portrait photographer in Mayfair, under royal patronage)
Wan Qing sui ying, 2011 t.p. (John Thomson) cover flap (b. June 14th, 1837; d. October 1921)