• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) and the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex, Peking (now Beijing), China

after 24 October 1860 and before 16 November 1860

- This photograph was taken from the base of the White Pagoda [Bai Ta] (now also known as the White Dagoba), Western Garden [Xi Yuan] (now Beihai Park), Peking (now Beijing), China (Harris, p. 147). Jingshan [Hill of Commanding Views] (also known as Coal Hill [Meishan] and Prospect Hill) is visible at upper left to centre, and the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex is visible from centre left to centre right.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 10.3 x 13.1 cm secondary support: 28.3 x 36.0 cm

PH1982:0643:091

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1982:0643:088, PH1982:0643:089, PH1982:0643:090, PH1982:0643:091, PH1982:0643:092, and PH1982:0643:093 are mounted on the same album page.

uninscribed - object uninscribed

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• walls
• palace
• temples
• towers (building divisions)
• hill
• landscape gardens
• belvederes