Photography Summer Palace: View From the West
Photography Summer Palace: View From the West
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A black-and-white photograph: panoramic view of the central part of the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) on Longevity Hill (Wanshoushan 萬壽山) or “Mountain of Longevity” in Beijing.
The photograph is the 306th 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 Sommer-Palais (Wan-Schou-Schan) von Westen. (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, trimmed on all sides
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