Rear of the North Taku Fort after its capture

Rear of the North Taku Fort after its capture

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: GA01-042.  Photograph by Felice Beato. It shows the south side of the inner (or upper) North Taku Fort, after its capture and before the dead bodies of Chinese soldiers were removed. An annotation in pencil (67")  has been added by the flag on the right of the photograph.  The 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot was the regiment Atchison served in.  See "Of Battle and Beauty - Felice Beato's Photographs of China" by David Harris (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999) - Catalogue 19.  See RH-s01.

Caption in album or on mount

Sea Front of the Upper North Taku Fort by which the Tartars retreated. Colors of the 67th fixed on the left Flag staff.

Caption on photograph

67"

Location

Tanggu

Date

Tuesday 21 August 1860

Photographer

Beato, Felice

Dimensions

298mm x 220mm

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

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