• Emil Rusfeldt (photographer)

Interior view of Wubai Luohan Tang (also known as Five Hundred Luohans Hall or Five Hundred Arhats Hall) showing Luohans, Hualin Temple (also known as the Temple of the Five Hundred Genii or Gods), Canton (now Guangzhou), China

between 1871 and 1874

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

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.5 x 29.5 cm secondary support: 27.3 x 37.2 cm

PH1984:1203:048

• interior view

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Nov. 3-/87."; and b.: "Interior of Temple of 500 Hundred Genii- Canton-" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label associated with the photograph: "[Chinese characters] / No. 317. / A View of the interior of the Temple of Five Hundred Genii in Canton."

Guangzhou; China;

• architecture
• ornement
• sculpture

• temple
• figures (representations)
• statues
• religious objects
• aisles
• luohans