• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the Forbidden City (also known as Zijincheng [Purple Forbidden Enclosure] and the Imperial Palace; now the Palace Museum), Peking (now Beijing), China

after 24 October 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). 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.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 23.1 x 28.5 cm secondary support: 23.1 x 57.9 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:040:002

• exterior view

- 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.

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"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• architecture de paysage

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