• Felice Beato (photographer)
• Kublai Khan (role unspecified)
• Ming Shizong, Emperor of China (role unspecified)
• Ming Chengzu, Emperor of China (role unspecified)
• Qianlong, Emperor of China (role unspecified)

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

after 24 October 1860 and before 16 November 1860

- 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.

Albumen silver print from glass plate negative

comp.: 23.1 x 29.4 cm secondary support: 37.8 x 43.2 cm

PH1986:0347:001

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1986:0347:001 and PH1986:0347:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0347:001-002. The left edge of photograph PH1986:0347:002 (the right photo of the panorama) is covered by the right edge of photograph PH1986:0347:001 where the two photos are attached. There are traces of another page affixed to the left edge of the secondary support.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r.: "Oct. / Beato - 1860"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

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