Interior of Angle of North Taku Fort soon after its capture

Interior of Angle of North Taku Fort soon after its capture

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: RH-s03. Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum reference: M3113. This photograph shows a similar scene of dead Chinese soldiers as depicted in GA01-039, but taken from a different angle, in the south west corner of the inner North Taku Fort. Comparing these two photographs, slight changes can be noticed in the arrangement of the corpses and in the placement of objects. For instance, one of the Chinese soldiers in the centre of the picture, laying on the wooden platform, is facing downwards, whilst in GA01-039 he is facing upwards.  See "Of Battle and Beauty - Felice Beato's Photographs of China" by David Harris (Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999) - Catalogue 16. See GA01-041 (another print).

Caption on photograph

Interior of the angle of North Fort [...] after [...] August […] / return to Miss Day Monkton St Margarets

Location

Tanguu

Date

Tuesday 21 August 1860

Photographer

Beato, Felice

Dimensions

289mm x 228mm

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum