• Felice Beato (photographer)

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

21 August 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).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.9 x 30.4 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:012

• 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.: "10" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "The rear of Taku Fort" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire

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