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Accession Nr.: A.4760.2.3.5.
Type: photograph
Artist/Maker:
Date of production:
1900-1901
Place of production:
Acquisition: collection of Dezső Bozóky
Signed: Below the photo: Dezső Bozóky's handwriting: Execution in Beijing.
Techniques: gelatin silver
Dimensions: height: 9.3 cm
width: 15 cm
The minutes after the execution. Three dead bodies in the rice field
are lying on the grass, the onlookers are all back to back, they are going home, the
two horsemen in European uniforms are standing at the edge of the plot. It is possible,
one of the events of the peace celebrations following the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion (1901).

Photo taken by: unknown

Album containing Dezső Bozóky's road photographs 2. Related item: A.4760.2. (album)

Collected by Dezső Bozóky.

Place of origin: Beijing (China)