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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
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
People:
  • Felice Beato (photographer)
Title:

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

Date:

between 22 August and 21 September 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 photograph 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).

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 21.1 x 27.8 cm secondary support: 21.1 x 84.6 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:014:002

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- 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.

Inscription:

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"

Location:

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • engineering
  • military
  • topographic
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • river
  • earthworks (engineering works)
  • mud flats (landform)
  • ships
  • fort
  • battlements
  • gulf
  • defensive walls
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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