Panoramic view of a section of the Imperial City showing Jade Flowery Island [Qionghua Dao], the White Pagoda [Bai Ta], part of North Lake [Beihai] and other structures in the Western Garden (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

Date:

29 October 1860

Description:

- This photograph was taken from the top of Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) looking northwest.
- At the time the photo was taken, the North Lake [Beihai], which is visible at centre right, had been drained (Harris, p. 148). The East Gate to Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park) is visible slightly left of centre and the conical roofed building at centre left is the northern-most building within the Daoist Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.7 x 29.6 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:039

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
palace
temples
hill
buildings
island
lake
stupa
chorten

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

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