• Felice Beato (photographer)

View showing part of the Great South Taku Fort and the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with the upper South Taku Fort and the Upper North Taku Fort in the background, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

- 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 Great South Taku Fort looking north across the walls of the fort and the Pei (now Hai) River toward the Gulf of Chihli (now Bo Hai) (Harris, p. 143).
- A copy print of this panorama under the title "Interior of South Taku Fort and Showing the Place of Landing June 25th 1859" is reproduced in Harris on pages 68-69 (cat. no. 23), and a copy print of PH1986:0901:015:002 (p. 167, fig. 23-3) under the title "Pei-Ho River and Taku Fort II" is reproduced in Harris on p. 167 (fig. 23-3).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.2 x 28.6 cm secondary support: 21.2 x 86.7 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:015:001

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1986:0901:015:001, PH1986:0901:015:002 and PH1986:0901:015:003 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:015:001-003. 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.: "13" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c.l.: "[illeg.] the attack in 1859 was made / 13"

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• engineering
• military
• topographic

• river
• earthworks (engineering works)
• mud flats (landform)
• ramps
• forts
• ditches
• huts
• battlements
• gulf
• defensive walls
• barracks
• cavaliers (fortification elements)