• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panoramic view of a section of the Imperial City showing Jade Flowery Island [Qionghua Dao], the White Pagoda [Bai Ta], part of North Lake [Beihai] and other structures in the Western Garden (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China

29 October 1860

- This photograph was taken from the top of Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) looking northwest.
- At the time the photo was taken, the North Lake [Beihai], which is visible at centre right, had been drained (Harris, p. 148). The East Gate to Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park) is visible slightly left of centre and the conical roofed building at centre left is the northern-most building within the Daoist Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 22.7 x 29.6 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:039

• exterior view

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

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique

• garden
• palace
• temples
• hill
• buildings
• island
• lake
• stupa
• chorten