Panorama showing part of the walls and moat of the Inner City, with the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) in the background, and part of the Altar to Earth [Ditan] (also known as the Temple of Earth), Peking (now Beijing), China

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

Date:

between 13 October and 24 October 1860

Description:

- This view looks west along the northern wall and moat of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing).
- On 11 October 1860, during the Second Opium War (1858-1860), the British and French forces positioned heavy siege guns along the southern wall (visible at c.l. to c.r. of PH1986:0901:026:002) of the Altar to Earth [Ditan] (also known as the Temple of Earth), threatening to bombard the walls of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing) and demanding the surrender of the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) within forty-eight hours. The Chinese surrendered the gate at noon on 13 October 1860 (Harris, p. 145).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 panorama(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

comp. (visible images; joined): 21.5 x 58 cm (8 7/16 x 22 13/16 in.) tertiary support (bound): 36.7 x 52 cm (14 7/16 x 20 1/2 in.) secondary support: 21.5 x 58 cm (8 7/16 x 22 13/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1986:0901:026:001-002

Point of View:

exterior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1986:0901:026:001 and PH1986:0901:026:002 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0901:026:001-002.

Inscription:

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.: "24" inscribed - on PH1986:0901:026:001, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, c.l., to l.l. to l.c.: "French within the / [p]reparatory to opening fire / of Pekin and Anting Gate [illeg.] Gate / [illeg.] date"

Location:

Beijing; China;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

temple
gateways
nonbearing walls
city wall
watchtowers
moat
battlements
bastions
weir

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

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