Mud Idol
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Mud Idol
From the album "In and Around Peking" from the album: (Views of Peking and Japan, ca. 1900)
ca. 1875
Albumen silver print
23.7 x 18.6 cm.
Purchase
1979.0054.0055
Inscriptions mount-recto (printed label) "In and Around Peking. A description of
views taken by Thos. Child. No. 177. Mud Idol. Peking. This is one of
four Idols called the four princes of Heaven; and are always to be
seen at the outer gate of large temples."
views taken by Thos. Child. No. 177. Mud Idol. Peking. This is one of
four Idols called the four princes of Heaven; and are always to be
seen at the outer gate of large temples."
