• H.C. Cammidge (photographer)

View of the tomb of foreign officers who fell in action against the Taiping Rebels, including that of Fredrick Townsend Ward, Sungkiang (now Songjiang), Chekiang (now Zhejiang Sheng), China

1867

Albumen silver print

comp.: 17.5 x 22.5 cm secondary support: 34.6 x 53.2 cm

PH1982:0363:038

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, t.: "Chung-kiang."; and b.: with title inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the negative, l.l.: "H.C.C./67"; l.r.: "17" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "40" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in black ink ?, verso, u.l.: "Chung Kiang Tumb (Chunkow) / 4" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph]

Songjiang; Zhejiang Sheng; China;

• architecture

• tomb
• memorial
• inscription
• battlements
• burial mound