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Partial view of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing defensive walls, palisades and ladders, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China
People:
  • Felice Beato (photographer)
Title:

Partial view of the ruins of the Upper North Taku Fort, showing defensive walls, palisades and ladders, Taku (now Dagu), near Tientsin (now Tianjin), China

Date:

between 22 August and 21 September 1860

Description:

- This photograph is one in a series of views which Felice Beato made of the four Taku Forts (Harris, p. 139; Worswick, p. 138). The French forces entered the fort using ladders, including those visible at c.r. (Harris, p. 139).

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.6 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:009

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Inscription:

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.: "7" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "[illeg.] French / [illeg.] Taku Fort" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Location:

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • engineering
  • military
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • ruins
  • earthworks (engineering works)
  • palisades (outworks)
  • fort
  • ladders
  • battlements
  • defensive walls
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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