Yiheyuan (New Imperial Summer Palace), Peking: Zhihuihai temple, at Wanshoushan. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.
- Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
- Date:
- 1981
- Reference:
- 19241i
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Zhihuihai: "Sea of Perfect Wisdom". Wanshoushan: "Hill of Longevity". A tall building seen through and above trees, with a dilapidated wall at right and three people sitting in the centre
Publication/Creation
1981
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
Contributors
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Buddhist temple China Yuen-Ming-Yuen
Bears Thomson's negative number: "492"
Notes
This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library
References note
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 38, pp. 112-113
Reference
Wellcome Collection 19241i
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