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

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

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

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).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.9 x 29.9 cm secondary support: 23.9 x 59.5 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:013:002

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1986:0901:013:001 and PH1986:0901:013:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:013:001-002. The secondary support comprises two pieces of paper joined together with cloth tape.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "[illeg.] North Taku Fort" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] 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.: "11"

Location:

Dagu; Tianjin; China;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

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

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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