Tortoise-shaped grave in Seoul

Visit to the Land of Morning Calm

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Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.28.4.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
ca. 1900
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting:
Tortoise Tomb in Seoul.
Materials/Techniques: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: height: 14.2 cm
width: 10.1 cm
The album containing Dezső Bozóky's travelphotos (second). Related item: A.4760.2. (album). Unknown photographer. Photograph purchased by Dezső Bozóky. Related item: F.2004.673. (photo). The stone stela commemorating the foundation of Wongaksa Monastery in Seoul’s first
public park. “In the quietest corner of this quiet park, they reverently keep an old tomb, a granite table on the back of a stone tortoise, with
splendid dragon carvings” (Bozóky 1911, I. 510).

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.