• Felice Beato (photographer)

View of the top of the wall of the Inner City, showing cannons, with the Yonghe Gong [Lamasery of Harmony and Peace] (also known as the Lama Temple) in the background, Peking (now Beijing), China

between 13 October and 24 October 1860

- This photograph was taken near the Anting Gate (now Anding Men), looking east along the top of the northern wall of the Inner City of Peking (now Beijing).
- As Harris points out, this view shows the guns aimed toward rather than outward from the city, as is suggested by the title of a published identical image, "Top of the Wall of Pekin Taken Possession of on October 1860, Showing the Chinese Guns Directed against Our Batteries" (Harris, p. 145).

Albumen silver print

comp.: 21.3 x 29.7 cm secondary support: 36.7 x 52.0 cm

PH1986:0901:029

• exterior view

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.: "27"

Beijing; China;

• architecture
• militaire

• brickwork (masonry)
• brick paving
• man
• city walls
• temple complex
• cannons (artillery)
• battlements
• lamasery