• Felice Beato (photographer)

Partial view of the walls and moat of the Inner City, with the Anting Gate (now Anding Men) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

between 13 October and 24 October 1860

- 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).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.5 x 29.1 cm secondary support: 21.5 x 58.0 cm tertiary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:026:001

• partial view
• exterior view

- 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.

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 - 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"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie
• militaire

• gateway
• nonbearing walls
• city wall
• watchtowers
• moat
• battlements
• bastions
• weir