Photography Access to the Wall
Photography Access to the Wall
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A black-and-white photograph showing the entrance to the city walls of imperial Beijing. This gave access to the Outer City (Waicheng 外城), located in the southern part of the city. The northern part, the Inner City (Neicheng 内城), surrounded the third part – the famous Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城). Individual parts of the city were separated by walls, just as the entire city was surrounded by a wall.
The photograph is the 32nd 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 Mauer-Auffahrt. (DZ)
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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