Caption

Summer Palace in Beijing, page, photomechanical print, photographer: Donald Mennie, Beijing, cliché maker: anonymous, c. 1915 - in or before 1920, paper, rotogravure, height 258 mm x width 202 mm, palace, Summer Palace, A sepia-toned photograph showing traditional East Asian architecture with layered tiled roofs, ornate ridge decorations, and carved eaves; a central wooden pavilion with open doorways and lattice panels sits on a raised stone terrace surrounded by balustrades and stone stairways; surrounding buildings with similar tiled roofs and decorative roof figures are visible, along with a hillside and distant landscape in the background.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B07_024

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Rights managed

Available size

49.3Mb (12.6Mb) / 12.3in x 15.6in / 3677 x 4683 (300dpi)

Keywords

Summer Palace Beijing page photomechanical print photographer Donald Mennie cliché maker anonymous c 1915 - 1920 paper rotogravure height 258 mm x width 202 mm palace sepia-toned photograph showing traditional East Asian architecture layered tiled roofs ornate ridge decorations carved eaves central wooden pavilion open doorways lattice panels sits raised stone terrace surrounded balustrades stone stairways surrounding buildings tiled roofs decorative roof figures visible hillside distant landscape background