• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama of the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort) showing earthwork cavaliers and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

- The inscribed title is on a separate piece of paper which was possibly detached from an album page or previous mount.
- 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 prints from glass negatives

comps. (visible images; joined): 24.4 x 58.9 cm (9 5/8 x 23 3/16 in.) secondary support: 24.6 x 59.1 cm (9 11/16 x 23 1/4 in.)

PH1985:0692:001-002

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1985:0692:001 and PH1985:0692:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1985:0692:001-002. The left edge of photograph PH1985:0692:002 (the right photo of the panorama) is covered by the right edge of photograph PH1985:0692:001 where the two photos are attached. The inscribed label is detached from the panorama.

labelled and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, on a paper label detached from the photograph: with title inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, l.l.: ".suc" [diagonally]

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire

• earthworks (engineering works)
• fort
• ramp
• columns (architectural elements)
• ladders
• huts
• battlements
• defensive walls
• barracks
• cavaliers (fortification elements)

Contient:

• PH1985:0692:001, View of the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort), showing an earthwork cavalier and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 22 August and 21 September 1860
• PH1985:0692:002, View of the Lower North Taku Fort (also known as the 2nd North Fort), showing earthwork cavaliers and defensive walls, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China, between 22 August and 21 September 1860