Interior view of Wubai Luohan Tang (also known as Five Hundred Luohans Hall or Five Hundred Arhats Hall) showing Luohans, Hualin Temple (also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Genii or Gods), Canton (now Guangzhou), China

People:

Emil Rusfeldt (photographer)

Title:

Date:

between 1871 and 1874

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.: 21.5 x 29.5 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1984:1203:048

Point of View:

interior 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.: "Interior of Temple of 500 Hundred Genii- Canton-" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 317. / A View of the interior of the Temple of Five Hundred Genii in Canton."

Location:

Guangzhou; China;

Subject:

architecture
ornament
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

temple
figures (representations)
statues
religious objects
aisles
luohans

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

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