Photography Arch Bridge at the Summer Palace on Longevity Hill
Photography Arch Bridge at the Summer Palace on Longevity Hill
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A black-and-white photograph showing the elegant arch bridge dividing the lake into two parts: Kunming Lake (Kunminghu 昆明湖) in the north and South Lake (Nanhu 南湖). The bridge is located in the Summer Palace complex (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing.
The photograph is the 307th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Bogen-Brücke in Wan-Schou-Schan. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 9.5 cm, width: 7,1 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: bluish discolouration of black colour
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