View of the Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple) showing Wanfu Ge [Ten Thousand Blessings Hall] and other buildings, Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of the Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple) showing Wanfu Ge [Ten Thousand Blessings Hall] and other buildings, Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

13 October 1860 or later

Description:

- This photograph was taken from the top of the northern wall of Peking (now Beijing), near the Anting Gate (now Anding Men), looking into the northeastern section of the Inner City.
- The title of a published identical image, "View of Confucian temple from An-ting Gate, Peking, October 1860" is inaccurate, as the Confucius Temple [also known as the Kongzimiao] is situated to the right of the buildings depicted in this view (Naquin, p. 444, map 12.1).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.3 x 30.1 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:018

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Residence of [Ambassador's Hd Quarters ] / outside Peking" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "16"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courtyards
brickwork (masonry)
walls
balconies
chi-wen
roof guardians
temple complex
buildings
finial
lamasery

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

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