photographs
PH1984:1203:001
Description:
- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
between 1860 and 1887
View of the Bridge of Embroidered Ripples [Xiuyi Qiao], Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1984:1203:001
Description:
- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.
photographs
between 1860 and 1887
architecture, landscape architecture, engineering
photographs
PH1986:0901:021
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).
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
between 6 October and 18 October 1860
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
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PH1986:0901:021
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).
photographs
between 6 October and 18 October 1860
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
photographs
PH1984:1203:009
Description:
- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.
architecture, ornament, sculpture
1887 or before
Interior view of the Temple of the Sleeping Buddha [Wofo Si] (also known as Shifang Pujue Monastery) showing the bronze "Sleeping Buddha", Western Hills, near Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1984:1203:009
Description:
- The imprinted label was possibly included after the album was assembled.
photographs
1887 or before
architecture, ornament, sculpture
photographs
PH1984:1203:004
architecture, ornament
1887 or before
photographs
1887 or before
architecture, ornament
photographs
PH1986:0901:033
Description:
- Qi and Qi reproduce a photograph of the same structures (p. 41) but misidentify the site as Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple), which is a Tibetan Buddhist temple complex located in the Inner City, outside the Imperial City.
architecture
29 October 1860
View of a p'ai-lou and a building at the southeast corner of the temple complex of Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) in the Imperial City, Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:033
Description:
- Qi and Qi reproduce a photograph of the same structures (p. 41) but misidentify the site as Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple), which is a Tibetan Buddhist temple complex located in the Inner City, outside the Imperial City.
photographs
29 October 1860
architecture
photographs
PH1986:0901:016
architecture
23 September 1860
photographs
23 September 1860
architecture
PH1982:0363:123 del
engineering
between 1862 and 1879
engineering
PH1982:0363:125 del
engineering
between 1862 and 1879
engineering
PH1982:0363:133-136 (087)
landscape architecture
between 1862 and 1879
landscape architecture
photographs
PH1986:0901:026:001-002
Description:
- This view looks west along the northern wall and moat of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing). - On 11 October 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), the British and French forces positioned heavy siege guns along the southern wall (visible at c.l. to c.r. of PH1986:0901:026:002) of the Altar to Earth [Ditan] (also known as the Temple of Earth), threatening to bombard the walls of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing) and demanding the surrender of the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) within forty-eight hours. The Chinese surrendered the gate at noon on 13 October 1860 (Harris, p. 145).
architecture, engineering, military
between 13 October and 24 October 1860
Panorama showing part of the walls and moat of the Inner City, with the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) in the background, and part of the Altar to Earth [Ditan] (also known as the Temple of Earth), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:026:001-002
Description:
- This view looks west along the northern wall and moat of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing). - On 11 October 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), the British and French forces positioned heavy siege guns along the southern wall (visible at c.l. to c.r. of PH1986:0901:026:002) of the Altar to Earth [Ditan] (also known as the Temple of Earth), threatening to bombard the walls of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing) and demanding the surrender of the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) within forty-eight hours. The Chinese surrendered the gate at noon on 13 October 1860 (Harris, p. 145).
photographs
between 13 October and 24 October 1860
architecture, engineering, military