View of a gateway and wall with battlements in a garden [?], Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

View of a gateway and wall with battlements in a garden [?], Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 1862 and 1879

Description:

- According to Documentation Assistant Alexander Soucy, it was unusual in China to surmount a garden wall with ornamental battlements.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 10.3 x 17.4 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0363:084

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, t.: "Pekin."; and c.r.: with title. numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "58" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, l.l. to l.c.: "Entrance to Sam pai [illeg.] China [illeg.] near Peking" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

gateway
wall
path
arch
battlements

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

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