Title: Head Executioner; Chief of Private Gang Capturefd Off Hong Kong; A Government Executioner, Canton
Object type: Photograph
Date: 1866
Artist: Attributed to John Thomson 
Artist bio: British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1837–1921 London
Artist nationality: British, Scottish
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image (a): 3 7/16 × 2 5/16 in. (8.8 × 5.8 cm)
Image (b): 9 11/16 × 7 1/2 in. (24.6 × 19 cm)
Image (c): 3 7/16 × 2 5/16 in. (8.8 × 5.8 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005
Department: Photographs
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY