Photograph of a portrait of the Empress Dowager painted by Katharine Carl (1865 - 1938)
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A.13 SC-GR-247
- Photographer
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- Collector
- Der Ling, Princess, 1885-1944
- Painter
- Carl, Katharine A. (Katharine Augusta), d. 1938
- Names
- Carl, Katharine A. (Katharine Augusta), d. 1938
- Cixi, Empress dowager of China, 1835-1908
- Der Ling, Princess, 1885-1944
- Guangxu, Emperor of China, 1871-1908
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- 光绪皇帝, 1871-1908.
- 勋龄, 1874-1943
- 勳齡
- 德齡郡主
- 德龄公主, 1885-1944
- 慈禧太后, 1835-1908
- 老佛爺
- 裕勋龄
- 裕德龄
- 西太后
- Collection Photographer
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- Place
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
- China
- Beijing (China)
- Yihe Yuan (Beijing, China)
- 颐和园
- Topic
- Photography -- China
- Empresses
- Palaces
- Eunuchs
- Photographer
- Xunling, 1874-1943
- Collector
- Der Ling, Princess, 1885-1944
- Painter
- Carl, Katharine A. (Katharine Augusta), d. 1938
- See more items in
- Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, Photographs
- Extent
- 1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative 1, 24.1 x 17.8 cm.(9.5 x 7 in.))
- Medium
- glass negative
- Date
- May, 1904
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A.13, Item FSA A.13 SC-GR-247
- Type
- Archival materials
- Glass plate negatives
- Photographs
- Collection Citation
- Cixi, Empress Dowager of China, Photographs. FSA.A.13. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- One of two portraits executed in 1903-1904 in Beijing for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. This painting was later given to Theodore Roosevelt who presented it to the Smithsonian. Currently the property of Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, S2011.16.1-2a-ap.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585218699616-1585218699630-2
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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