Bridge of the Curved Back — Summer Palace [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of the bridge, with a boat passing beneath: 'This marble bridge is on the K'un Ming Lake of the Summer Palace. The single span is twenty-four feet, and the height of thirty feet under the arch was to allow the Imperial pleasure barge to pass. It has the name Lo...
View of the Garden, looking north-west. Photographer: Thompson, Charles Thurston
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking across the garden towards the conservatory, with figures posed around the miniature lake in the foreground.
The Canal and Small Cascade. Photographer: Thompson, Charles Thurston
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the ornamental canal towards the cascade, with the arcade and a portion of the Conservatory visible in the background.