Photography Full View of the Princess’s Tomb
Photography Full View of the Princess’s Tomb
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A black-and-white photograph: panoramic view of the area where the princess’s tomb is located. The entrance to the site is marked by a stone memorial triumphal arch with three passages, i.e., the Lingxing Gate (Lingxingmen 櫺星門).
The photograph is the 255th 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 Gung Dschu – Fen: (Prinzesinen-Grab) Total-Ansicht. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.5 cm, width: 8.5 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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