The palace of the Japanese Resident in Seoul

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

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Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.25.3.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1908
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
The palace of the Japanese resident in Seoul.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: height: 9.5 cm
width: 13 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Photograph taken by Dezső Bozóky. A building complex surrounded by wooden railing, with a long, multi-storey wooden structure in the centre. “The road ran, along the Catholic church, steeply upwards, right up to the resident’s palace, where Korea’s uncrowned emperor, Prince Ito manages the affairs of the country” (Bozóky 1911, I. 510–511). Other publication: Bozóky Dezső: Két év Keletázsiában. Útirajzok. I-II. kötet. China és Korea, Japán. (동아시아에서의 2년. 여행기 I.-II. 권, 중국과 한국, 일본) Nagyvárad, the author's edition, 1911.