• Felice Beato (photographer)

Panorama of Foochow (now Fuzhou) showing part of the foreign settlement, the Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages and the Min River, China

between 1860 and 1861, or 1870

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

Albumen silver prints

comps. (range): 20,5 to 20,6 x 27 to 28 cm secondary supports (range; irreg.): 52,4 to 52,5 x 31,3 to 36 cm

PH1981:0620:047-048

• exterior views

- Photographs PH1981:0620:047 and PH1981:0620:048 are adhered to different album pages but form panorama PH1981:0620:047-048. Photograph PH1981:0620:047 comprises the left half of the panorama and photograph PH1981:0620:048 comprises the right half. There is white binding tape along the left edge, verso, of the album page for PH1981:0620:047 and along the right edge, verso, of the album page for PH1981:0620:048. The album page for photograph PH1981:0620:048 is detached from the album.

numbered - on PH1981:0620:047, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, l.l.: "54." numbered - on PH1981:0620:047, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink [?], on the sheet, verso, u.c.: "54" [seen in mirror image through recto of photograph] numbered and inscribed - on PH1981:0620:048, by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, c.r.: "54"; and l.r.: "nton" [sideways; cut off]

Fuzhou; China;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• river
• city
• bridge (built work)
• buildings
• boats
• settlement

Contient:

• PH1981:0620:047, View of Foochow (now Fuzhou) showing part of the foreign settlement and the Min River, China, between 1860 and 1861, or 1870
• PH1981:0620:048, View of Foochow (now Fuzhou) showing part of the foreign settlement, the Bridge of Ten Thousand Ages and the Min River, China, between 1860 and 1861, or 1870