Photography Copper Etching on Paper – Original Bamboo Pavilions in the Old Summer Palace
Photography Copper Etching on Paper – Original Bamboo Pavilions in the Old Summer Palace
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A black-and-white photograph showing a printed image of the Bamboo Pavilion (Zhuting 竹亭) in the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園) in Beijing.
It is the ninth in a series of twenty engravings commissioned in 1783 by Emperor Qianlong (reigned 1735–1796) and printed three years later. The prints, gathered in the series Twenty Views of European Pavilions in the Old Summer Palace, were designed and probably produced by the court artist Yi Lantai 伊兰泰 (1749–1786), who was trained by the Jesuit painter and court artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766). The inscription in the upper right-hand corner states that it is the ninth image in the album, showing the bamboo pavilions from the north. In the manual inventory of the Skušek’s album the building is called “Entrance to the Old Summer Palace”.
The photograph is the 332nd of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing ... more
A black-and-white photograph showing a printed image of the Bamboo Pavilion (Zhuting 竹亭) in the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan 圓明園) in Beijing.
It is the ninth in a series of twenty engravings commissioned in 1783 by Emperor Qianlong (reigned 1735–1796) and printed three years later. The prints, gathered in the series Twenty Views of European Pavilions in the Old Summer Palace, were designed and probably produced by the court artist Yi Lantai 伊兰泰 (1749–1786), who was trained by the Jesuit painter and court artist Giuseppe Castiglione (1688–1766). The inscription in the upper right-hand corner states that it is the ninth image in the album, showing the bamboo pavilions from the north. In the manual inventory of the Skušek’s album the building is called “Entrance to the Old Summer Palace”.
The photograph is the 332nd 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 Yüen-Ming-Yüen: Eingang (nach Original-Bild). (DZ, MV)
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