Photography Marble Bridge From Nanhu Island in the Summer Palace
Photography Marble Bridge From Nanhu Island in the Summer Palace
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A black-and-white photograph showing the longer seventeen-part marble arch bridge (Shiqi kongqiao 十七孔橋) in the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing. A 150-metre bridge crosses the lake, dividing it into two parts: Kunming Lake (Kunminghu 昆明湖) in the north and South Lake (Nanhu 南湖). The bridge leads to Nanhu Island (Nanhudao 南湖島) or “South Lake Island”, called “Dragon Island” in the album manual.
The photograph is the 321st 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 Wan-Schou-Schan: Marmourbrücke zu der Drachen-Insel. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.6 cm, width: 7.2 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, trimmed on all sides
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