• 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 and ruins on Wanshou Shan (also known as Longevity Hill), 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.: 23.0 x 29.4 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:020:002

• 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
• temple
• stairs
• artificial lake
• roofs
• hills
• promenade (walkway)
• summer palace