• Felice Beato (photographer)

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

between 6 October and 18 October 1860

- 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).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 25.5 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:021

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "19"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage
• topographique

• garden
• courtyard
• chi-wen
• roof guardians
• eaves
• bells (idiophones)
• finial
• pagoda (building)
• summer palace
• Buddhas