• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama showing the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort) and the Great South Taku Fort in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

- This panorama is one in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138).
- This panorama was made from the upper South Taku Fort looking east across the Pei (now Hai) River toward the Gulf of Chihli (now Bo Hai). The British and French combined fleet is visible on the horizon in PH1986:0901:014:002 (Harris, p. 160).

Albumen silver prints

comp. (visible images; joined): 21.1 x 84.6 cm (8 5/16 x 33 5/16 in.) secondary support: 21.1 x 84.6 cm (8 5/16 x 33 5/16 in.) tertiary support (bound): 36.7 x 52 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

PH1986:0901:014:001-003

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1986:0901:014:001, PH1986:0901:014:002 and PH1986:0901:014:003 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:014:001-003. The secondary support comprises three pieces of paper successively joined with cloth tape.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c. to l.r.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: "12" inscribed and numbered - on PH1986:0901:013:001, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c.l.: "Entrance of PeiHo No 12"

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• engineering
• military
• topographic

• river
• earthworks (engineering works)
• mud flats (landform)
• palisades (outworks)
• ships
• forts
• battlements
• gulf
• defensive walls
• cavaliers (fortification elements)

Contains:

• PH1986:0901:014:001, View showing the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort) in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 22 August and 21 September 1860
• PH1986:0901:014:002, View showing the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with part of the Great South Taku Fort in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 22 August and 21 September 1860
• PH1986:0901:014:003, View showing the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with part of the Great South Taku Fort in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 22 August and 21 September 1860