Photography Panoramic View from Mount Yuquan
Photography Panoramic View from Mount Yuquan
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A black-and-white photograph: view from Jade Spring Mountain (Yuquanshan 玉泉山) in northwest Beijing. Longevity Hill (Wanshou shan 萬壽山) and Kunming Lake (Kunminghu 昆明湖) at the Imperial Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing are seen in the background.
The photograph is the 330th 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 Panorama von Yün-Tschüan-Schan. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 14.1 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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