Biyunsi (Temple of Azure Clouds), Beijing: the Jingangta (Diamond Sutra Pagoda), viewed through a a memorial arch. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1871.

  • Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.
Date:
1981
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19243i
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View of steps. Seen through an arched entrance, which is in turn seen through a gateway. Man standing beside the steps half way up. A small octagonal pavilion to the right hand side. Ceremonial lion-dog sculptures by the side of the path. The sun is shining

Publication/Creation

1981

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Temple Yuen-Ming-Y(uen) Bears Thomson's negative number: "493"

Notes

This is one of a collection of same-size contact prints made, in 1981, from John Thomson's original negatives. The glass negatives, made between 1868 and 1872, were purchased from Thomson by Sir Henry Wellcome in 1921 and are now in the Wellcome Institute Library

References note

John Thomson, Through China with a camera, London, 1898, f.p. 266, "Buddhist temple, Yuen-ming-Yuen"
Nick Pearce, Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908: an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham: through Peking with a camera, Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005, no. 44, pp. 122-123

Reference

Wellcome Collection 19243i

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