Photography South Entrance to the Forbidden City – Donghua Inner Gate
Photography South Entrance to the Forbidden City – Donghua Inner Gate
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A black-and-white photograph: panoramic view of the city gate on the inner wall that separated the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) from the Inner City (Neicheng 内城). The gate is called Donghua (Donghuamen 東華門). In front of the gate, we see a scaffold made of bamboo scaffolding for masonry work. People walk along the path that leads through the gate, some pulling carts.
The photograph is the 273rd 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 Süd-Zugang der Verb. Stadt (dem Verkher freigegeben). (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.4 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: well preserved
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