Caption

Camels on a path past a building, page, photomechanical print, photographer: Donald Mennie, Beijing, cliché maker: anonymous, c. 1915 - in or before 1920, paper, rotogravure, height 204 mm x width 224 mm, road, path, hoofed animals: camel, civic architecture, edifices, dwellings, A sepia-toned street scene showing a line of camels walking along a muddy road, each camel carrying large bundled loads on its back, with a person walking alongside the lead camel holding a rope and another person visible at the rear of the line, a high brick wall and a multi-tiered traditional roofed building rise to the right, lower tiled roofs and bare leafless trees with visible branches fill the middle and left background, and rutted muddy ground with footprints and tracks occupies the foreground.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B07_028

License type

Rights managed

Available size

43.1Mb (12.5Mb) / 13.6in x 12.3in / 4076 x 3698 (300dpi)

Keywords

Camels path past building page photomechanical print photographer Donald Mennie Beijing cliché maker anonymous c 1915 - 1920 paper rotogravure height 204 mm x width 224 mm road path hoofed animals camel civic architecture edifices dwellings sepia-toned street scene showing line camels walking muddy road carrying large bundled loads back person walking alongside lead holding rope another person visible rear high brick wall multi-tiered traditional roofed building rise right lower tiled roofs bare leafless trees visible branches fill middle left background rutted muddy ground footprints tracks occupies foreground