View showing the Tangku Fort, defensive walls, moats and a causeway, Tangku (now Tanggu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View showing the Tangku Fort, defensive walls, moats and a causeway, Tangku (now Tanggu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

Date:

between 14 August and 20 August 1860

Description:

- The British soldier at c. is seated directly in front of the point where the French forces broke through the walls and entered the fort; the British entrance is about a half-mile to the right (Harris, p. 138).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.0 x 29.1 cm secondary support: 24.0 x 57.9 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:006:001

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1986:0901:006:001 and PH1986:0901:006:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:006:001-002. The secondary support comprises two pieces of paper joined together with cloth tape.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: "4" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c., c.l., b.: "4"

Location:

Tanggu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

people
earthworks (engineering works)
mud flats (landform)
fort
flag-pole
battlements
soldier
defensive walls

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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