View [Wanshou Shan] with the Revolving Archive [Zhuanlun Cang] in the background, 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 [Wanshou Shan] with the Revolving Archive [Zhuanlun Cang] in the background, 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.: 9.3 x 17.6 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0363:135

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, t.: "Yuen-ming-yuen."; and c.l.: with title. numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "88" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, l.l.: "[illeg.] / Yuen-Ming-Yuen" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
temple
figure (representation)
baluster caps
hill
statue
library (room)
balustrade
pagoda (building)
pedestal
stelae

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

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