View of a p'ai-lou beside Kunming Lake, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

View of a p'ai-lou beside Kunming Lake, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 1862 and 1879

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 21.3 x 27.2 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0363:131

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, t.: with title. numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "86" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, l.r.: "Yuen-Ming-Yuen / Pekin"; u.r.: "20" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

bas-reliefs
baluster caps
chi-wen
p'ai-lou
roof guardians
pavilion (garden structure)
balustrade
inscription
rockery
plinths
braces (supporting elements)

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

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