Photography Memorial Arch Pailou in the Summer Palace
Photography Memorial Arch Pailou in the Summer Palace
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A black-and-white photograph showing the three-part wooden memorial triumphal arch (pailou 牌樓) at the Summer Palace (Yiheyuan 頤和園) in Beijing. Kunming Lake (Kunminghu 昆明湖) stretches behind the arch. On the left-hand side of the photo, the longer marble arch bridge to Nanhu Island (Nanhudao 南湖島) can be seen in the background.
The photograph is the 318th 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: Pailou. (DZ, MV)
Place of manufacture: Beijing
Manufacturing technique: black-and-white photograph
Dimensions: length: 13.7 cm, width: 8.6 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 top and bottom edges
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