View of the Bronze Ox, 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 of the Bronze Ox, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 1860 and 1887

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.: 21.4 x 29.1 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1203:010

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "1887."; and b.: "Bronze Bull- Pekin-" numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink ?, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "186" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 873, PEKIN. / In this we have another of the interesting monuments of the plains of / Wan-shou-shan, it is composed of bronze, and rests on a handsome pedestal / of white marble"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

landscape architecture
ornament
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

statue
inscription
carving
summer palace

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

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