• Unknown (photographer)
• Fu-teng (architect)

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

ca. 1865

Albumen silver print

comp.: 17.2 x 23.7 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

PH1982:0363:022

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1982:0363:022-024 are mounted on the same secondary support.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: with title. numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "32" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, u.l.: "[illeg.] Mo- long-[illeg.]hi[illeg.] / 8" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Suzhou; Jiangsu Sheng; China;

• architecture
• sculpture

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