Military and Traffic Maps
蘇州府輿圖
Map of Suzhou Prefecture| Hanyu Pinyin | Suzhou Fu yu tu |
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| Date | Between Qing Xianfeng and early Tongzhi period, 1855-1864. |
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| Techniques | Pen-and-ink manuscript |
| Material | paper |
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| Country of Repository | |
| Identifier | British Library |
| Notes | Or. 2338 (32) 19 |
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No title appears on the map; the title applied here is based on content. The map consists of two parts. No scale or legend is given; orientation is marked along the borders on all four sides with north at the top. Ports, checkpoints, and rivers are drawn in pen-and-ink with the town walls briefly sketched pictorially. Some parts are annotated in English. All places are identified with text, and some distances are also given. A seal stamped on the map contains the text of “Ever Victorious Army,” indicating that the map was used as a military war map at the time. This is one of Charles George Gordon’s No. 32 collection. The map may have been drawn around the period of Xianfeng and Tongzhi, 1855-1864.
This map can be contrasted with the following maps in the National Palace Museum’s collection: Changjiang di li tu (map no. 020878); Changjiang tu (map no. 020879); Jiangnan ge dao fu tu biao cun (map no. 020923-020941); Jiangnan quan sheng dao li zong tu (map no. 021560); Jiangsu hai fang tu (map no. 021513) and Ping ding yue fei zhan tu san shi jiu zhang (map no. 021283.001-021294.002); and the Library of Congress collection: Jiangsu quan tu (gm 71005111); Changjiang shui shi Guazhou Zhen Biaozhong Ying jiang xu quan tu (gm 80692824); Qing jun wei gong Jinling Cheng tu (gm 71005033).
This map can be contrasted with the following maps in the National Palace Museum’s collection: Changjiang di li tu (map no. 020878); Changjiang tu (map no. 020879); Jiangnan ge dao fu tu biao cun (map no. 020923-020941); Jiangnan quan sheng dao li zong tu (map no. 021560); Jiangsu hai fang tu (map no. 021513) and Ping ding yue fei zhan tu san shi jiu zhang (map no. 021283.001-021294.002); and the Library of Congress collection: Jiangsu quan tu (gm 71005111); Changjiang shui shi Guazhou Zhen Biaozhong Ying jiang xu quan tu (gm 80692824); Qing jun wei gong Jinling Cheng tu (gm 71005033).
