View of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing an earthwork cavalier and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing an earthwork cavalier and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

Date:

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

Description:

- This photograph is the first in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). The gate at c.l. is the point where the British forces entered the fort, while the French forces entered via the ladders at c.r. (Harris, p. 139).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 20.6 x 29.9 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:007

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "5"

Location:

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
earthworks (engineering works)
farmer
mud flats (landform)
palisades (outworks)
fort
ladders
battlements
defensive walls
cavalier (fortification element)

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

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