• Unknown (photographer)

View of the Bridge of Embroidered Ripples [Xiuyi Qiao], Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

between 1860 and 1887

- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.5 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

PH1984:1203:001

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, b.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink ?, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "177" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 871, PEKIN." and with a description of "Lu-kow" bridge, including its location "in the plain close to Wan-shou-shan"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• ingénierie

• garden
• baluster caps
• stone
• bridge (built work)
• arch
• lake
• summer palace