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Photo 1116/1(43)
- Record Id:
- 041-003176833
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003176789
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026599950.0x000c4f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1116/1(43)
- Title:
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Canton. Wa Lum Temple. Photographer: Rusfeldt, Emil
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
View showing the rows of sculptures inside the temple. The accompanying letterpress caption note reads: 'No. 317. In this temple there are about 500 of these wood cut images which are called '500 genii' whose postures are unlike each other, and the pots in front of them are incense pots. Chinese legend says that these 500 genii were bats, one day the great Budha Yii Lui Foo found them crouching on a large trunk of trees, and by prayer and fast he converted, and transformed them into genii, and allotted to each of them a place of worship in this temple.'
This photograph is reproduced in Clark Worswick, 'Imperial China. Photographs 1850-1912' (Pennwick/Crown, 1978), p. 57, where it is credited to Emil Rusfeldt (Hong Kong Photographic Rooms) and dated 1871-74.
[Albumen print, 291x214mm].
Subjects = Chinese architecture; Chinese sculpture; interiors; temples
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003176789
040-003176790
041-003176833 - Is part of:
- Photo 1116 : Crofton Collection: Photographs of Hong Kong, China Ceylon and Zanzibar.
Photo 1116/1 : Crofton Collection: Hongkong and Canton 1880-1890. Photographer(s): Unknown
Photo 1116/1(43) : Canton. Wa Lum Temple. Photographer: Rusfeldt, Emil - Hierarchy:
- 032-003176789[0001]/040-003176790[0043]/041-003176833
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1116
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1870
- End Date:
- 1879
- Date Range:
- 1870s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- 317
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Rusfeldt, Emil
- Subjects:
- Wa Lum Temple (Canton)
- Places:
- Canton, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Asia