Characteristic Korean sculpture. Entrance to the palace, Seoul, Korea – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Characteristic Korean sculpture. Entrance to the palace, Seoul, Korea
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Two carved stone lions guard the entrance to a palace in Seoul in this stereograph, one of the paired guardian figures that stood at gates across Korea. Taken around 1903, when the Korean Empire still held court in Seoul and the old royal compounds remained the center of government, the card is numbered 21 and copyrighted by C.H. Graves as a commercial stereo view. The caption tags name marble and lions, but the record notes that this information comes from an old caption and has not been verified. Seen through a stereoscope, the two slightly offset images merge into a single three-dimensional view of the sculpture and the gate behind it.
| Created / published | c1903. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by C.H. Graves. No. 21. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ph. Ind.; Geogr.; Marble; Palaces; Sculpture; Lions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,364 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146133 |
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