• Unknown (photographer)
• Fu-teng (role unspecified)

View of a group of people and a statue of Maitreya Buddha [Mi-le Fo] with the ruins of the Building for Buddhist Scripture in the background, K'ai-yuan [Kaiyuan] Temple, near Soochow (now Suzhou), China

ca. 1865

Albumen silver print

comp.: 17.2 x 23.5 cm secondary support: 27.4 x 43.8 cm

PH1986:0349

• exterior view

- The bottom edge of the secondary support has been irregularly cut. PH1986:0349 is mounted on verso of secondary support.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, b.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "23" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "13" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.l.: [check mark] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Woo-leang Temple [illegible] Missionaries" [erased]

Suzhou; Jiangsu Sheng; China;

• architecture
• sculpture

• ruins
• temple
• people
• figure (representation)
• steps
• piers (supporting elements)
• statue
• path
• arches
• gable-on-hip roof
• missionaries