• Unknown (photographer)

View of a lamaist pagoda with the Jade Peak Pagoda [Yufeng Ta] [?] in the left background, near Peking (now Beijing), China

between 1862 and 1879

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.0 x 27.7 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

PH1982:0363:127

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, t.: "Yuen-ming-yuen."; and b.: with title. numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "# / 83 / 43" [last line half-erased] numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, l.l. to l.r.: "[illeg.]"; l.r.: "45" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• temple
• doorway
• wall
• chi-wen
• spire
• park (grounds)
• gable roof
• octagonal pagoda (building)