• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of a building in Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

between 6 October and 18 October 1860

- The inscription at l.c.: "The same", refers to photograph PH1986:0901:022 which immediately precedes this photograph in album PH1986:0901:001-045 and which is another view showing part of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan).
- The title of a published identical image, "The Great Imperial Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, before the Burning, 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.: 25.4 x 28.0 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:023

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "The same" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "21"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• garden
• balconies
• chi-wen
• roof guardians
• roof
• building
• columns (architectural elements)
• eaves
• finial
• summer palace