M. Dumont D’Urville. Peristyle of the Yuen Ming Yuen Palace. 1834.

Print of steel engraving titled Perystile du Palais Yuen Ming Yuen“.

Author Jules Sbastien Csar Dumont d'Urville.

Engraved by unknown.

From Voyage pittoresque Autour du Monde, resume general des voyages decouvertes, public sous la direction de M. Dumont D’Urville, a Paris, chez L. Tenre, Libraire-Editeur, 1834.

Jules Sbastien Csar Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as D'Urville Island.

The Old Summer Palace known in Chinese as Yuanmingyuan and originally called the Imperial Gardens was a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing. It is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) northwest of the walls of the Imperial City and was built in the 18th and early 19th century as the place where the emperors of the Qing dynasty resided and handled government affairs (the Forbidden City was used for formal ceremonies). The Old Summer Palace was known for its extensive collection of garden and building architectures and other works of art Nearby and to the south was an extensive imperial hunting park known as "Nanyuan".

Approx. image size 12, 2 x 8/17, 5 x 13, 4 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.