Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. ‘Halfway through the long Wushan Gorge is the boundary between Hupeh and Szechuan, marked by a narrow glen on the right bank of Pei Shih. The picture shows a corner of Wushan, the first city over the border. It is built on a hill facing the...
Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View along the gorge: ‘Situated at the eastern entrance to the Ox Liver Gorge, the Kung-Ling T’an is accounted one of the most dangerous rapids at low water season. In the centre is seen the great rock which bisects the channel, leaving onl...
Genre: Landscape Photography View from the river looking towards cliffs, with a temple pagoda at the summit, with junks moored at the water’s edge in the foreground.
The Rock-Bound Mouth of the Niu-Kan, Ma-Fei Hsia. (Ox Liver, Horse’s Lung Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge towards mountains on the horizon: ‘At the head of the Zigzag Reaches is the Niu-kan, Ma-fei Hsia, or Ox-liver Gorge, the magnificent portals of which are called Tong-ling Hsia, or Pierced Mountain Gorge. At their foot...
Along the Shores of the Erh-T’an. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
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Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View along the riverbank: ‘The mountain paths are too rough for any kind of wheeled traffic and even the bamboo pole must be replaced in Szechuan by the back basket which the man in the foreground is carrying.’