View of the Temple of the Sea of Wisdom [Zhihui Hai] and the Revolving Archive [Zhuanlun Cang], with a statue of a lion in the left foreground, Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

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

Title:

Date:

1871

Description:

- This photograph was taken from the bottom of Longevity Hill.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 23.8 cm secondary support: 18.8 x 24.5 cm

Reference number:

PH1980:0941

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
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
temple
figure (representation)
hill
statue
library (room)
pagoda (building)
pedestal
summer palace
quarter-turn stairs

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

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