• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), showing Kunming Lake, with Yuquan Shan (also known as Jade Spring Hill) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

between 20 October and 2 November 1860

- The title of a published identical image to PH1986:0901:020:002, "View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Pekin" is inaccurate, as Yuen Ming Yuen (now 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).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 23.2 x 16.2 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:020:001

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1986:0901:020:001 and PH1986:0901:020:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:020:001-002.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "18"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique

• garden
• ruins
• artificial lake
• hills
• pagoda (building)
• promenade (walkway)
• summer palace