View of a garden showing a moon gate with a footbridge in the foreground, Canton (now Guangzhou), China

People:

John Thomson (photographer)

Title:

View of a garden showing a moon gate with a footbridge in the foreground, Canton (now Guangzhou), China

Date:

1869

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.9 x 26.8 cm secondary support: 29.6 x 37.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1987:0309

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Garten - Thor / [Fah ?] - [Tik ?] / [I ?].J.Bl[illeg.]" inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on secondary support, u.r. to c.r.: with title and "1869" [sideways] signed ? - by photographer ? in black ink, in the image, l.l.: "J. Thomson"

Location:

Guangzhou; Guangdong Sheng; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
handrails
wall
footbridge
Chinese garden
moon gate
pavilion (garden structure)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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