photographic print
- Museum number
- Af,A30.15
- Description
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Portrait of a male child standing in front of a statue of an animal, possibly a lion. Child wearing padded jacket and trousers, head-gear, shoes.
Medium: Gelatin silver print.
- Production date
- 1937 (21st January)
- Dimensions
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Length: 18.45 centimetres
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Width: 11.90 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguer's comment: The statue is on the Spirit Way to the Ming Tombs, built during the Ming Dynasty, 1368 to 1644. Jessica Harrison-Hall (British Museum; Oriental Antiquities), 21/03/1996.
Album contains 79 photographs.
Main themes of album: Visits to sites in and near Beijing including the Great Wall of China, the Ming Tombs, the Winter Palace, the Summer Palace and various temples.
Albums Af,A8 to Af,A29 and Af,A31 to Af,A33 belong to the same series.
Circumstances: [SIN-] PIC DOC 08.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Album bound in full leather. Good condition.
- Acquisition date
- 1968
- Acquisition notes
- Copyright: British Museum (?).
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af,A30.15