View of Jingshan (also known as Coal Hill or Prospect Hill) and Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex showing part of the Forbidden City (also known as Zijincheng and the Imperial Palace; now the Palace Museum), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

Date:

after 24 October and before 16 November 1860

Description:

- 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, the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex is visible from centre left to centre right, and Shengwumen [Gate of Divine Might], the northern gate to the Forbidden City, is visible at extreme centre right.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.1 x 29.4 cm secondary support: 23.1 x 57.9 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:040:001

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1986:0901:040:001 and PH1986:0901:040:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:040:001-002.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: "38" inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c.l. to c.r.: "Pekin showing the Artificial Hill / Pekin 29th [superscript] October 1860"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
landscape architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

walls
palaces
temples
towers (building divisions)
hill
landscape gardens
belvederes

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

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