• Felice Beato (photographer)

Partial view of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing defensive walls, a drawbridge and a moat, 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). At c.r. is the demolished gateway where the British forces entered the fort (Harris, p. 139).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 22.5 x 29.6 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:008

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.c.: with title inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.c. to u.r.: "Gate of Taku Fort afternoon after English" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire

• ruins
• gateway
• causeway
• drawbridge
• earthworks (engineering works)
• palisades (outworks)
• plank bridge (built work)
• fort
• moat
• defensive walls