Interior of North Taku fort Photograph.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Beato, Felice, 1832-1909, photographer.

Contributor:

British Library, owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fortification.

China--Taku Forts.

Genre:

Photographs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 photograph)

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1860.

Summary:

'Interior of North Fort, showing the Chinese Encampment, August 21st, 1860'. View across an open area littered with dead Chinese soldiers towards the battlements of the fort, whose walls are additionally protected by a forest of wooden stakes. The flags of the allied armies fly from the fort. This is Print 19 in Hering's published catalogue of Beato's China views.

Notes:

Reference: c7362-02

Title from publisher's website.

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