View of the ruins of the Flowery Pagoda [Hua Ta], Liurong Si (also known as Six Banyans Temple), Canton (now Guangzhou), China

People:

Dutton & Michaels (photographic studio)

Title:

View of the ruins of the Flowery Pagoda [Hua Ta], Liurong Si (also known as Six Banyans Temple), Canton (now Guangzhou), China

Date:

1863

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.0 x 30.9 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1203:040

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Nov. 3-/87."; and b.: "Flower Pagoda- Canton-" inscribed - by an unknown hand, scratched in the negative, l.l.: "Canton Pagoda [2300] Years Old" and l.r.: "Dutton & Michaels Artists" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink, on the print, l.l.: "[Canton Pagoda] 2300 [Years Old]" dated - by an unknown hand, scratched in the negative, l.r.: "1863"

Location:

Guangzhou; China;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
brickwork (masonry)
building
men (male humans)
pagoda (building)

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

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