• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of a section of Wuchang (now in Wuhan) within the city walls, China

between 1860 and 1861, or 1870

Albumen silver print

comp.: 19.0 x 24.0 cm secondary support: 55.6 x 44.2 cm

PH1986:0359:003

• exterior view

- Photographs PH1986:0359:001, PH1986:0359:002, and PH1986:0359:003 are adhered together on the same secondary support to form panorama PH1986:0359:001-003. Panoramas PH1986:0359:001-003 and PH1986:0360:001-003 and photographs PH1980:0361 and PH1980:0362 are adhered to the same secondary support. Photograph PH1986:0359:003 has tears from l.c. to l.l. and is creased and folded.

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the secondary support, c.: with title / [title in Chinese characters] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, l.l.: "Album 750 / 69 a + b" inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, u.r.: "69"

Wuchang; Wuhan; Hubei Sheng; China;

• architecture

• monastery
• people
• houses
• walls
• roofs
• villas
• monks
• gables (architectural elements)