Historical Photographs of China

Entrance to the summer residence of the Russian Minister, near Beijing

Entrance to the summer residence of the Russian Minister, near Beijing

Collection

Bowra, Edward

Identifier

Bo01-078

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bo01-078. Photograph by Charles Frederick Moore. Other known prints of this photograph carry varying caption information: The caption in the C.F. Moore album at the Irish Jesuit Archive (IJA) is: "Entrance to San Tai tze 'hua yer, near Pekin." The caption (in Spanish) in an album at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA ref: PH1982.0363.084) is: [.]an-paitsz-h[...] - Puerta'. The caption in an album that Bibianne Moore (the wife of C.F. Moore) gave to Hester Hart is: "Entrance to a Flower Garden". A related photograph in the Moore album at the IJA is captioned: "Small Pavilion in Madam Popoff's Garden, near Pekin."

Caption in album or on mount

Summer residence of Russian Minister, outside Peking.

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1870

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph