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Album of exterior views of military sites, palaces, temples, urban centres and landscapes in China and northern India, and a view of Athens, Greece
Album of exterior views of military sites, palaces, temples, urban centres and landscapes in China and northern India, and a view of Athens, Greece
People:
  • Felice Beato (photographer)
  • Samuel Bourne (photographer)
  • D. Constantin (photographer)
  • Baron Henry Brougham Loch Loch (compiler)
Title:

Album of exterior views of military sites, palaces, temples, urban centres and landscapes in China and northern India, and a view of Athens, Greece

Date:

assembled after 1872 and before 1900

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

album (closed): 38,4 x 54 x 4,2 cm comps. (range): 15 to 30 x 11,2 to 259,4 cm secondary supports: 36,7 x 52 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:001-045

Point of View:
  • partial views
  • exterior views
  • plan view
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Clamshell case of blue cloth-covered boards. Contemporary binding consists of 1/4 dark red leather-covered corners and spine, 3/4 red cloth-covered boards with rectangular red leather label, gilt lettering and trim, brown binding tape. The endpapers and flyleaves are of light yellow wove paper. Album comprises 45 albumen silver prints mounted on 45 light yellowish brown construction paper pages. Pages 41, 42, 46, and 47 are unused. All panoramas comprise photographs joined together with white cloth tape.

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - impressed and imprinted, in gilt, on a leather label adhered to front cover, c.: with title

Conditions governing access:
  • Album fragile à consulter en raison des nombreux panoramas pliés. Ces tirages sur papier albuminé ne sont pas supportés et sont délicats à manipuler.
Location:

Athens; Greece;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • landscape architecture
  • temporary architecture
  • engineering
  • military
  • ornament
  • portrait
  • sculpture
  • topographic
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • gardens
  • courtyards
  • ruins
  • guardians
  • trees
  • brickwork (masonry)
  • reliefs
  • people
  • stairs
  • gateways
  • houses
  • gate
  • chair
  • stores
  • walls
  • sculptures
  • balconies
  • statues
  • vase
  • palaces
  • pavilions (building divisions)
  • bases (object components)
  • clock
  • ornaments
  • artificial lake
  • baluster caps
  • blind windows
  • brick paving
  • brick wall
  • candlesticks
  • casemates
  • causeway
  • censer
  • chi-wen
  • city
  • cross-bow
  • drawbridge
  • earthworks (engineering works)
  • embroidered robe
  • evergreens
  • farmer
  • farmland
  • fretwork
  • full-rigged ships
  • gangways (circulation elements)
  • glazed tile
  • hat
  • hitching posts
  • huabiao
  • long guns
  • man
  • mud flats (landform)
  • mud structures (single built works)
  • necklace
  • nonbearing walls
  • ordnance depot
  • p'ai-lou
  • palisades (outworks)
  • pavilions (garden structures)
  • paving
  • piers (supporting elements)
  • plank bridge (built work)
  • pommels (finials)
  • porch
  • prince
  • promenades (walkways)
  • ramps
  • river deltas
  • rivers
  • road
  • roof guardians
  • roofs
  • rotunda (building)
  • satin
  • ships
  • shop signs
  • shutters
  • soldiers
  • spires
  • squares (open spaces)
  • stone
  • stone walls
  • stupas
  • summer palaces
  • temple complexes
  • temples
  • tents
  • terraces
  • tomb
  • towers (building divisions)
  • towns
  • veranda
  • wood (plant material)
  • hills
  • altars
  • valleys (landforms)
  • bridges (built works)
  • city walls
  • buildings
  • watchtowers
  • forts
  • military camps
  • moats
  • landscape gardens
  • islands
  • columns (architectural elements)
  • mountains
  • ladders
  • arches
  • ditches
  • flag-poles
  • cannons (artillery)
  • dwellings
  • lakes
  • eaves
  • balustrades
  • boats
  • bays (bodies of water)
  • inscriptions
  • colonnades
  • bells (idiophones)
  • finials
  • pagodas (buildings)
  • carvings
  • huts
  • battlements
  • gulfs
  • defensive walls
  • bastions
  • barracks
  • chortens
  • Buddhas
  • weirs
  • cavaliers (fortification elements)
  • lamaseries
  • belvederes
  • roof-tops
  • corpses
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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