View of the Pagoda of Many Treasures [Duobao Ta], Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of the Pagoda of Many Treasures [Duobao Ta], Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 6 October and 18 October 1860

Description:

- The title of a published identical image, "View of the Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, Showing the Pagoda before the Burning" is inaccurate, as Yuen Ming Yuen (now 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).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 25.5 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:021

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "19"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

garden
courtyard
chi-wen
roof guardians
eaves
bells (idiophones)
finial
pagoda (building)
summer palace
Buddhas

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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