The Fu in ruins, after the Siege of the Legations, Peking

The Fu in ruins, after the Siege of the Legations, Peking

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-n069. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: '34: Russians on guard'. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. Emulsion peeling off the negative. The Fu was a Chinese palace (Su Wang Fu, owned by Prince Su), where thousands of Chinese Christian converts had sheltered during the siege. Russian soldiers on guard among the ruins. Photograph by Yamamoto Sanshichiro, published in ‘Views of the North China Affair’ (1901) and captioned: ‘16. Sho-Ching-Wang-Foo in Peking where there has been a conflagration.’

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1900

Photographer

Yamamoto, Sanshichiro

Material

Negative

Media

Black and white photograph