View showing part of the outworks of the Great South Taku Fort and the Pei (now Hai) River delta, 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 28.7 cm secondary support: 21.2 x 86.7 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm
PH1986:0901:015:003
- 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 - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "South Fort [illeg.] / the attack in 1859 was made" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]
Dagu; Tianjin; China;
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