View of shops in a street in the Inner City (also known as the Tartar City), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of shops in a street in the Inner City (also known as the Tartar City), Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

after 24 October and before 16 November 1860

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.5 x 29.0 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:038

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "Street Peking" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, b.: "Tobacco shop" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "36" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "[illeg.]"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
ornament

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stores
fretwork
hitching posts
shop signs
wood (plant material)
columns (architectural elements)
balustrades
carvings

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

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