Photography Memorial Archwaypailou in Front of one of the Temples in the Western Hills
Photography Memorial Archwaypailou in Front of one of the Temples in the Western Hills
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A black-and-white photograph showing the back of a memorial arch (pailou 牌樓) in front of one of the temples on the Western Hills (Xishan 西山) near Beijing.
The photograph is the 215th 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 Tor des “Tempels der Westlichen Berge”. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 10.8 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: bluish discolouration of black colour, trimmed on all sides
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