By the Hsi Chih Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the city wall towards the massive gatehouse tower, with a cart on the road in the foreground: 'This gate...which is the northern one in the western wall of the Tartar city, is certainly imposing if not sublime. The make-up of the wall, t...
Through the Nan Hsi Mên [Beijing]. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View of a cart and a laden mule passing through the arched gateway, 'the most western of the three gates in the south wall of the Chinese city...The picture helps us realize the intensity of the light; on emerging from that gate one is in open country, in ...