Sujet

Monumental Slabs at the Eastern Terminus - Great Wall of China, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Monumental Slabs at the Eastern Terminus - Great Wall of China, 1850. 'The first objects that arrested our attention on the platform were three monumental slabs of black marble - two standing close to the wall, the third removed from its base: a curiously-carved altar-shaped pedestal lay extended on the ground. On one of the standing slabs is deeply inscribed the sentence, "Heaven created Earth and Sea"; and on the other, "Only a Spoonful". The import of this latter sentence we were at a loss to conjecture: it may have had reference to the placid waters of the Gulf of Leotong; or, perhaps, is intended as an allusion to the nothingness of this vast structure when compared with the works of Creation.' From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A36_155

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,4Mo (3,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 34,8cm / 4960 x 4112 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel building stone country writing stones China Chinese British marble fortifications fortification Great Wall of China slab slabs text inscription inscriptions location Victorian century monumental Britain newspapers press B&W tourist attraction lettering engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century inscribed tourism The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century