Photography Emperor Xuantong, the Last Emperor of China
Photography Emperor Xuantong, the Last Emperor of China
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A black-and-white photograph showing a portrait of a small child, only a few years old, Emperor Xuantong. He is also known as Pu Yi 溥儀. He was born in the year 1906. As the eleventh and last emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), he ruled from 1908 to 1912 and died in 1967. Since the Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty, the emperor is often referred to as the “Last Emperor of China”. Cranes are depicted on a screen.
The photograph is the 300th 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 Hsüan-Ting, der gegenwärtige Kaiser von China. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 8.5 cm, width: 14.1 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: well preserved
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