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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Cup.409.b.11

1. Cup.409.b.11

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11
Title:
The grandeur of the Gorges. Fifty photographic studies, with descriptive notes, of China’s great waterway, the Yangtze Kiang, including twelve hand-coloured prints. Photographer(s): Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Imprint: A. S. Watson and Company (the Shanghai Pharmacy, Ltd.) Kelly and Walsh, Limited, Shanghai, 1926. Quarto, measuring 320 x 260 mm, decorative silk binding, featuring a view of the Yangtze Gorges and title on upper board; preface; introduction by Marc T. Greene, notes on plates by H. Foo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
50 items

2. Cup.409.b.11(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(1)
Title:
T’ung-Ling Hsia. (The Pierced Cliff.) Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the gorge: ‘One of the most lasting impressions formed when travelling through the Gorges … is the approach to the T’ung-Ling Hsia — the gateway of the Ox Liver Gorge. Seen from a little distance, an impenetrable rampart of hig...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

3. Cup.409.b.11(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(2)
Title:
Hung-Shih-Tzu. (Red Rock.). Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View across the river, towards hill and cloud-covered peaks beyond, with junks under sail on the water.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

4. Cup.409.b.11(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(3)
Title:
Ch’ing-T’an. (Bright Rapid.) Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the rapids, with steep mountainside rising on either bank: ‘This Rapid occurs between the Ox Liver and Mi-Tsiang Gorges. It was caused by a fall of rocks from the right bank which took place, it is said, in the year 1637. Ever since it has continu...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

5. Cup.409.b.11(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(4)
Title:
A safe anchorage on the River Yao-Cha-Ho. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View along the river towards cloud-covered mountains, with junks moored at the water’s edge in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

6. Cup.409.b.11(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(5)
Title:
The T’ing-Tsu at Ch’ing-T’an Village. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. View along the riverbank, with the village and pagoda on the hillside overlooking the water: 'This picture has an unusual interest inasmuch as it represents the locality where the late Captain Plant, ‘The Grand Old Man of the Yangtze,’ re...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

7. Cup.409.b.11(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(6)
Title:
The Ch’ing-T’an T’an. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the rapids, with a fisherman with dip-net on rocks at water’s edge.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

8. Cup.409.b.11(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(7)
Title:
The Cliffs of the Huang-Mao Hsia. (Yellow Cat Gorge.) Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Brown-toned photogravure. View across the river towards the cliffs, with a junk sailing up-river.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

9. Cup.409.b.11(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(8)
Title:
The fore-shore at K’uei-fu. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Green-toned photogravure. View towards the river at dusk: ‘In the middle foreground is part of the great shingle bank of Ch’ou-Yen-Chi (Stinking Flat), so named because brine is boiled out here during the low water season.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item

10. Cup.409.b.11(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
Cup.409.b.11(9)
Title:
In the Witches Gorge. Photographer: Mennie, Donald
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Hand-coloured photogravure. ‘The Witches Gorge, commonly known as the Wushan Gorge, is the longest, most spectacular and impressive of all the great gorges. For twenty-five miles the river turns and twists through scenery of unparalleled beauty and grandeur. The mou...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1925
Extent:
1 item