View of Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) and the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex, Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) and the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex, Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

after 24 October 1860 and before 16 November 1860

Description:

- This photograph was taken from the base of the White Pagoda [Bai Ta] (now also known as the White Dagoba), Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China (Harris, p. 147). Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) is visible at upper left to centre, and the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex is visible from centre left to centre right.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 10.3 x 13.1 cm secondary support: 28.3 x 36.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1982:0643:091

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1982:0643:088, PH1982:0643:089, PH1982:0643:090, PH1982:0643:091, PH1982:0643:092, and PH1982:0643:093 are mounted on the same album page.

Inscription:

uninscribed - object uninscribed

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

walls
palace
temples
towers (building divisions)
hill
landscape gardens
belvederes

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

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