There are still those who say that the English had no idea about the Chinese garden before the Yuan Mingyuan pictures reached their country. There are also those who try to prove that Burlington only bought the prints of Jehol in his later years, not when Ripa went to London.
直到晚近，仍然有人堅持圓明園圖版抵英前，英國人的腦袋裡沒有中國園林；也有人試圖證明勃靈頓是在晚年，而非馬國賢抵英時買到這本畫冊。