Interior view of the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha [Wofo Si] (also known as Shifang Pujue Monastery) showing the bronze "Sleeping Buddha", Western Hills, near Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ming Xianzong, Emperor of China (role unspecified)

Title:

Interior view of the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha [Wofo Si] (also known as Shifang Pujue Monastery) showing the bronze "Sleeping Buddha", Western Hills, near Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

1887 or before

Description:

- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 20.9 x 29.0 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1203:009

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "1887."; and b.: "The Sleeping Buddah- Peking-" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 887, THE SLEEPING BUDDAH. / Here we have the sleeping God, with all the paraphernnalia [sic] of idolatrous worship; the reclining figure measures twenty-four feet in length."

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
ornament
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

temple
statues
religious objects
carvings
Buddha

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

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