View of the top of the wall of the Inner City, showing cannons, with the Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of the top of the wall of the Inner City, showing cannons, with the Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 13 October and 24 October 1860

Description:

- This photograph was taken near the Anting Gate (now Anding Men), looking east along the top of the northern wall of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing).
- As Harris points out, this view shows the guns aimed toward rather than outward from the city, as is suggested by the title of a published identical image, "Top of the Wall of Pekin Taken Possession of on October 1860, Showing the Chinese Guns Directed against Our Batteries" (Harris, p. 145).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 21.3 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:029

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: "27"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

brickwork (masonry)
brick paving
man
city walls
temple complex
cannons (artillery)
battlements
lamasery

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

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