• Unknown (photographer)
• Ming Chengzu, Emperor of China (role unspecified)

View of stone camels, elephants and other animal statues along the Spirit Road [Shen Dao] leading to the Ming Tombs [Ming Chen Ling], Changping county, near Peking (now Beijing), China

1887 or before

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

Albumen silver print

comp.: 22.1 x 29.2 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

PH1984:1203:011

• exterior view

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "1887."; and b.: "The Ming Tombs- Avenue of Approach- / Pekin-" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 901, THE MING TOMBS." and with a description of the Ming Tombs and the avenue leading to them

Beijing; China;

• sculpture

• figures (representations)
• statues
• road
• path
• necropolis
• royal tomb complex
• stone carvings