• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama showing the Tangku Fort, defensive walls, moats and a causeway, Tangku (now Tanggu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 14 August and 20 August 1860

- The British soldier at c.l. is seated directly in front of the point where the French forces broke through the walls and entered the fort; the British entrance is about a half-mile to the right (Harris, p. 138).

Albumen silver prints

comp. (visible images; joined): 24 x 57.9 cm (9 7/16 x 22 13/16 in.) secondary support: 24 x 57.9 cm (9 7/16 x 22 13/16 in.) tertiary support (bound): 36.7 x 52 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

PH1986:0901:006:001-002

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1986:0901:006:001 and PH1986:0901:006:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:006:001-002. The secondary support comprises two pieces of paper joined together with cloth tape.

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.: "4" numbered - on PH1986:0901:006:001, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c., c.l., b.: "4"

Tanggu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire
• topographique

• people
• earthworks (engineering works)
• mud flats (landform)
• fort
• flag-pole
• battlements
• soldier
• defensive walls

Contient:

• PH1986:0901:006:001, View showing the Tangku Fort, defensive walls, moats and a causeway, Tangku (now Tanggu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 14 August and 20 August 1860
• PH1986:0901:006:002, View showing the Tangku Fort, defensive walls, moats and a causeway, Tangku (now Tanggu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 14 August and 20 August 1860