• Felice Beato (photographer)

View showing part of the Great South Taku Fort and the Pei (now Hai) River delta, with the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort) in the background, 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).
- This photograph was made from the Great South Taku Fort looking north across the walls of the fort and the Pei (now Hai) River toward the Gulf of Chihli (now Bo Hai) (Harris, p. 143).
- A copy print of this panorama under the title "Interior of South Taku Fort and Showing the Place of Landing June 25th 1859" is reproduced in Harris on pages 68-69 (cat. no. 23), and a copy print of PH1980:0380:002 (p. 167, fig. 23-3) under the title "Pei-Ho River and Taku Fort II" is reproduced in Harris on p. 167 (fig. 23-3).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 23.9 x 28.7 cm

PH1980:0380:002

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1980:0380:001, PH1980:0380:002 and PH1980:0380:003 are successively joined together with cloth tape at their verso edges to form panorama PH1980:0380:001-003.

numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on the sheet, verso, u.c. to u.r.: "No. 8 / Interior of South Fort / showing place of landing on the 3[rd] June. 1859."

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire
• topographique

• river
• earthworks (engineering works)
• mud flats (landform)
• palisades (outworks)
• forts
• ditches
• battlements
• gulf
• defensive walls
• cavaliers (fortification elements)