• Unknown (photographer)
• Yinxiang, Prince, brother of Yongzheng, Emperor of China (role unspecified)

View of the p'ai-lou at the entrance to the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha [Wofo Si] (also known as Shifang Pujue Monastery), Western Hills, near Peking (now Beijing), China

1887 or before

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

Albumen silver print

comp.: 24.1 x 30.1 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

PH1984:1203:007

• exterior view

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "1887."; and b.: "Woo-Fa-Tsu Temple- Pekin- / (Sleeping Buddah-)" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 885, WOO-FA-TSU TEMPLE." and with a description of the "Temple of the Sleeping Buddah", including its location "within an easy distance from Yuen-ming-yuen"

Beijing; China;

• architecture

• temple
• monastery
• glazed tile
• p'ai-lou
• arches