Hand Colored Engraving by T. Allom: View of the Western Gate of Peking

Somewhere, a fortress gate with doubled pagoda roofs guards a little humped bridge

This hand colored engraving is from London, England, United Kingdom, and is dated 1843. It is ink on paper. The Finden brothers engraved biblical scenes after J.M.W. Turner for the 1836 book Landscape Illustrations of the Bible, and Turner relied on sketches by artists who had visited the Holy Lands. Seen here is a hand-colored scene of a heavy city wall with a dark arched gate and two stacked tile roofs on top, a small arched bridge below, and boats and tiny figures along the water. It is 10.5 inches wide and 7.8 high.

A grand entrance with a very modest bridge to match.