• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama of the northeast corner watchtower, walls, and Dongzhi Gate of the Inner City, Peking (now Beijing), China

between 13 October and 24 October 1860

Albumen silver prints

comps. (visible images; joined): 24 x 58.1 cm (9 7/16 x 22 7/8 in.) secondary support: 24 x 58.1 cm (9 7/16 x 22 7/8 in.) tertiary support (bound): 36.7 x 52 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/2 in.)

PH1986:0901:028:001-002

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1986:0901:028:001 and PH1986:0901:028:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:028:001-002.

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.: "26" inscribed - on PH1986:0901:028:001, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c.l.: "[illeg.] Wall of Pekin"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• militaire

• casemates
• chi-wen
• roof guardians
• city walls
• watchtowers
• moat
• cannons (artillery)
• battlements
• bastions
• pommel (finial)

Contient:

• PH1986:0901:028:001, View of the east wall and Dongzhi Gate of the Inner City, Peking (now Beijing), China, between 13 October and 24 October 1860
• PH1986:0901:028:002, View of the northeast corner watchtower and walls of the Inner City, Peking (now Beijing), China, between 13 October and 24 October 1860