View of the Belvedere of the God of Literature [Wen Chang Di Jun Ge] (now known as the Studio of Literary Prosperity or Wen Chang Ge), Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

Date:

between 6 October and 18 October 1860

Description:

- The title of a published identical image, "The Yuan Ming Yuan (The Old Summer Palace)" is inaccurate, as Yuanming Yuan [Garden of Perfect Clarity], though near the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), is a separate garden complex (Naquin, pp. 312-314).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.1 x 20.5 cm secondary support: 28.7 x 37.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0132

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled, numbered, imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the image, l.l. to l.c.,: "46", with title and "October 18th, 1860." inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "561"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
temple
clock
roof
colonnade
summer palace
belvedere

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

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