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

View of T'ien-ning Ssu (now Tianningsi) Pagoda, Peking (now Beijing), China

1887 or before

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

Albumen silver print

comp.: 30.0 x 23.9 cm secondary support: 37.2 x 27.3 cm

PH1984:1203:012

• exterior view

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, b.: "1887. Tien-Ning-Szu [sic] Pagoda- Pekin-" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 843, TIEN-NING-SZU PAGODA." and with a description of T'ien-ning Ssu (now Tianningsi) Pagoda

Beijing; China;

• architecture

• temple
• bas-reliefs
• blind windows
• eaves
• pagoda (building)
• false door