• Felice Beato (photographer)

View showing the southern Pehtang Fort, the town of Pehtang (now Beitang), and the Pehtang (now Beitang) River delta, near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 2 August and 4 August 1860

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.9 x 28.9 cm secondary support: 21.9 x 259.4 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:004:004

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1986:0901:004:001, PH1986:0901:004:002, PH1986:0901:004:003, PH1986:0901:004:004, PH1986:0901:004:005, PH1986:0901:004:006, PH1986:0901:004:007, PH1986:0901:004:008 and PH1986:0901:004:009 are adhered to the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:004:001-009. The secondary support comprises six pieces of paper successively joined with cloth tape. The left edge of PH1986:0901:004:001 is curled.

dated and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the tertiary support, l.c.: "3"

Beitang; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire
• topographique

• earthworks (engineering works)
• mud structures (single built works)
• ramps
• buildings
• fort
• moat
• town
• battlements
• defensive wall
• river delta