Photography New Walls of the Forbiden City
Photography New Walls of the Forbiden City
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A black-and-white photograph showing the new wall of the Forbidden City (Gugong 故宫 or Zijincheng 紫禁城) next to Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang 天安門廣場). The old wall was demolished in 1915.
The photograph is the 449th 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 Neue Mauer der Verb. Stadt bei Tien-Nan-Men. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.7 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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