View of a group of people and a statue of Maitreya Buddha [Mi-le Fo] with the ruins of the Building for Buddhist Scripture in the background, K'ai-yuan [Kaiyuan] Temple, near Soochow (now Suzhou), China

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Fu-teng (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

ca. 1865

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.2 x 23.5 cm secondary support: 27.4 x 43.8 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0349

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The bottom edge of the secondary support has been irregularly cut. PH1986:0349 is mounted on verso of secondary support.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, b.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "23" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "13" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.l.: [check mark] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Woo-leang Temple [illegible] Missionaries" [erased]

Location:

Suzhou; Jiangsu Sheng; China;

Subject:

architecture
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
temple
people
figure (representation)
steps
piers (supporting elements)
statue
path
arches
gable-on-hip roof
missionaries

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

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