ARCH256564
1967
DR1987:0106:008
Description:
- A view of the artificial lake known as Virginia Water in Windsor Great Park, with the so-called "Mandarin Yacht" to the right and the Duke of Cumberland[?] and company foreground centre to left.
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
1754 or 1755
View of the Chinese Junk from the north side of Virginia Water
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DR1987:0106:008
Description:
- A view of the artificial lake known as Virginia Water in Windsor Great Park, with the so-called "Mandarin Yacht" to the right and the Duke of Cumberland[?] and company foreground centre to left.
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
ARCH281685
Description:
Tape is inscribed "2A" on one side and "2B" on the other.
circa 1970
Audio recording ofArthur Erickson taking a Chinese language lesson.
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ARCH281685
Description:
Tape is inscribed "2A" on one side and "2B" on the other.
circa 1970
ARCH281701
Description:
Tape is inscribed "3A" on one side.
circa 1970
Audio recording of Arthur Erickson taking a Chinese language lesson.
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ARCH281701
Description:
Tape is inscribed "3A" on one side.
circa 1970
photographs
PH1986:0901:020:002
Description:
- The title of a published identical image to PH1986:0901:020:002, "View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Pekin" 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 20 October and 2 November 1860
View of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), showing Kunming Lake and ruins on Wanshou Shan (also known as Longevity Hill), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:020:002
Description:
- The title of a published identical image to PH1986:0901:020:002, "View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Pekin" 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 20 October and 2 November 1860
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
photographs
PH1986:0901:040:001-002
Description:
- This panorama 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). In PH1986:0901:040:001, 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. In PH1986:0901:040:002, the Forbidden City is visible from centre left to centre right and the west wall and a building at the southwest corner of the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex are visible at centre left.
architecture, landscape architecture
after 24 October and before 16 November 1860
Panorama of Jingshan (also known as Coal Hill or Prospect Hill), Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex, and the Forbidden City (also known as Zijincheng and the Imperial Palace; now the Palace Museum), Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:040:001-002
Description:
- This panorama 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). In PH1986:0901:040:001, 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. In PH1986:0901:040:002, the Forbidden City is visible from centre left to centre right and the west wall and a building at the southwest corner of the Ta-kao hsuan Hall (now Dagaoxuan Dian) temple complex are visible at centre left.
photographs
after 24 October and before 16 November 1860
architecture, landscape architecture
drawings
PH1979:0603.04:048
architecture
published 1874
drawings
published 1874
architecture
photographs
PH1986:0901:020:001
Description:
- The title of a published identical image to PH1986:0901:020:002, "View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Pekin" 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 20 October and 2 November 1860
View of the Garden of the Clear Ripples [Qing Yi Yuan] (now known as the Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan), showing Kunming Lake, with Yuquan Shan (also known as Jade Spring Hill) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China
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PH1986:0901:020:001
Description:
- The title of a published identical image to PH1986:0901:020:002, "View of the Imperial Summer Palace, Yuen Ming Yuen, after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Pekin" 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 20 October and 2 November 1860
architecture, landscape architecture, topographic
photographs
PH1986:0901:040:001
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.
architecture, landscape architecture
after 24 October and before 16 November 1860
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
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PH1986:0901:040:001
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.
photographs
after 24 October and before 16 November 1860
architecture, landscape architecture
PH1986:0901:014:001-003
Description:
- This panorama is one in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). - This panorama was made from the upper South Taku Fort looking east across the Pei (now Hai) River toward the Gulf of Chihli (now Bo Hai). The British and French combined fleet is visible on the horizon in PH1986:0901:014:002 (Harris, p. 160).
architecture, engineering, military, topographic
between 22 August and 21 September 1860
Panorama showing the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort) and the Great South Taku Fort in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China
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PH1986:0901:014:001-003
Description:
- This panorama is one in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). - This panorama was made from the upper South Taku Fort looking east across the Pei (now Hai) River toward the Gulf of Chihli (now Bo Hai). The British and French combined fleet is visible on the horizon in PH1986:0901:014:002 (Harris, p. 160).
architecture, engineering, military, topographic