Bankers' Glen and the Dazhangxi, near Fuzhou

Bankers' Glen and the Dazhangxi, near Fuzhou

Collection

Fry, John Gurney

Identifier

Fr01-082

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: Fr01-082. Photograph by Lai Fong (Afong Studio). This image is reproduced in History of Photography in China, Chinese Photographers 1844-1879 by Terry Bennett (Quaritch 2013), on page 160, and captioned: '109. Entrance to the Bankers' Glen, view to the right looking down Yuen-foo River'. Yuen Foo river (or Yongfu He) is now known as Dazhangxi (Dazhang Xi), near Foochow (Fuzhou). See also, for example, Hv36-30 and Os03-019.

Caption in album or on mount

VIEW OF THE RIVER FROM THE BANKER'S GULLY

Location

Fuzhou

Estimated Date

1869

Dimensions

282mm x 222mm

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

University of Bristol Library, Special Collections