Longmen, Binyang Caves, Central cave, north east wall, showing removed Donors Relief

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Local Numbers: FSA A.01 12.05.GN.090
General: Title is provided by FSg Archives staff

Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919; Yü Tai, c.1910
Names: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Smithsonian Institution
Collection Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919

Place: China

Topic: Buddhism; Antiquities; Temples -- China

Creator: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919; Yü Tai, c.1910

See more items in: Charles Lang Freer Papers; Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.5: China / Photographs in China, 1910-1911, Glass Plate Negatives (16 Boxes)

Extent: 1 Glass plate negative (glass plate negative, 8.5 x 6.5 in.)

Date: 1910

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Identifier: FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.05.GN.090

Type: Archival materials; Glass plate negatives; Photographs

Collection Citation: Charles Lang Freer Papers. FSA A.01. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of the estate of Charles Lang Freer.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form: Photographs -- 1900-1910 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Glass

Scope and Contents: Glass plate negative taken by Chinese photographer Yü Tai for Charles Lang Freer during his journey to the cave temples of Longmen in Henan Province, and a subsequent brief trip to Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province between October 1910 and February 1911. This relief is currently in the Metropolitan Museum, New York.; 龙门宾阳中洞