Bronze guardian lions (tongshi 銅獅) at the East Palace Gate (东宫门), Summer Palace, Beijing

Bronze guardian lions (tongshi 銅獅) at the East Palace Gate (东宫门), Summer Palace, Beijing

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Bo01-080. No caption in the album for this photograph. The entrance to the New Summer Palace, which was burned and looted by Anglo-French forces in 1860, is closed off with a new plain wall. A man is standing beside the bronze female lion (with a lion cub under her paw) in the foreground. The male lion is in the background. Photograph by Charles Frederick Moore.

Location

Beijing

Estimated Date

1870

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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