Partial view of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing dead soldiers, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

Partial view of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing dead soldiers, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

Date:

21 August 1860

Description:

- This photograph is one in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). This view shows the inside of the fort at the point where the French forces entered (Harris, pp. 140-141).
- The title of a published identical image, "The Great North Fort at Taku, at the mouth of the Pei-ho, August 21, 1860" is inaccurate, as 'Great North Fort at Taku' is an alternate name for the larger Lower (also known as the 2nd) North Taku Fort and not the Upper North Taku Fort depicted in this image ('The Face of China', p. 33; Harris, p. 142).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.6 x 30.1 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:011

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.: "9" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "Inside of Taku Fort where French entered" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
casemates
earthworks (engineering works)
long guns
fort
ramp
columns (architectural elements)
ladders
cannons (artillery)
defensive walls
gangway
corpses

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

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