• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing an earthwork cavalier and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

- This photograph is the first in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). The gate at c.l. is the point where the British forces entered the fort, while the French forces entered via the ladders at c.r. (Harris, p. 139).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 20.6 x 29.9 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:007

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: "5"

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire

• ruins
• earthworks (engineering works)
• farmer
• mud flats (landform)
• palisades (outworks)
• fort
• ladders
• battlements
• defensive walls
• cavalier (fortification element)