View of the Palichao (now Baliqiao) bridge, Tung-chow (Tongzhou, also now known as Tongxian), near Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of the Palichao (now Baliqiao) bridge, Tung-chow (Tongzhou, also now known as Tongxian), near Peking (now Beijing), China

Date:

between 21 September and 2 October 1860

Description:

- The inscription accompanying this photograph refers to events between 18 September and 14 October 1860. On 18 September 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), 39 British and French civilians and soldiers were taken hostage by the Chinese. Among the hostages were Harry Smith Parkes, the British commissioner in Canton (now Guangzhou) and Henry Loch, private secretary to Lord Elgin, who were later released, and Captain Brabazon of the Royal Artillery, who was killed (Harris, p. 153).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.0 x 30.2 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:017

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.: "15"

Location:

Tongzhou; Beijing; China;

Subject:

engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

guardians
brickwork (masonry)
statues
baluster caps
paving
stone
bridge (built work)
arch

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

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