View of coastal fortifications showing a martello tower and defensive walls, near Kobe, Japan

People:

Felice Beato (photographer)

Title:

View of coastal fortifications showing a martello tower and defensive walls, near Kobe, Japan

Date:

between 1863 and 1877

Description:

- A hand-written table of contents accompanies album PH1981:0620:001-081.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.3 x 18.5 cm secondary support: 52.5 x 36.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0620:032

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Photographs PH1981:0620:032 and PH1981:0620:033 are mounted on the same album page.

Inscription:

numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, u.l.: "29" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite [?], on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "[illeg.] / Kobe tower / 29" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r..: "29" [at l.r. corner of PH1981:0620:032] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.r..: "30" [at l.r. corner of PH1981:0620:033]

Location:

Kobe; Japan;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

gateway
beach
defensive walls
coastal fotifications
martello tower

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

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