• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the Belvedere of the God of Literature [Wen Chang Di Jun Ge] (now known as the Studio of Literary Prosperity or Wen Chang Ge), Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

between 6 October and 18 October 1860

- The title of a published identical image, "The Yuan Ming Yuan (The Old Summer Palace)" is inaccurate, as Yuanming Yuan [Garden of Perfect Clarity], though near the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), is a separate garden complex (Naquin, pp. 312-314).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 18.1 x 20.5 cm secondary support: 28.7 x 37.6 cm

PH1986:0132

• exterior view

labelled, numbered, imprinted and dated - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the image, l.l. to l.c.,: "46", with title and "October 18th, 1860." inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "561"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

• garden
• temple
• clock
• roof
• colonnade
• summer palace
• belvedere