View of the ruins of the Glazed Pagoda [Liuli Ta] in the Fragrant Hill Park [Xiangshan Yuan] near Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

John Thomson (photographer)
Qianlong, Emperor of China (architect)

Title:

View of the ruins of the Glazed Pagoda [Liuli Ta] in the Fragrant Hill Park [Xiangshan Yuan] near Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

1871

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print from wet collodion glass plate negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.0 x 23.3 cm secondary support: 19.3 x 23.7 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0939

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Mount has an extra rectangular piece at lower centre for label

Inscription:

labelled and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a label attached to the secondary support, b.: with title

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
ruins
plinth
balustrade
park (grounds)
octagonal pagoda (building)
Buddha bas-reliefs
terrace (building division)

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

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