Chinese Topography including The Summer Palace, Peking, Hong Kong and Shanghai
FELICE BEATO
細節
FELICE BEATO
Chinese subjects including Imperial Summer Palace, Peking, 1860
Five albumen prints, one 9¾ x 11 5/8 in., four approx. 6½ x 8½ in., mounted on card, the first titled in pencil on mount, the others titled in ink on paper labels, matted. (5)
出版
An example of the image from the storming of the Taku forts appears in Worswick, Photographs Imperial China 1850-1912, p. 36 (illus.) and Beers, China in Old Photographs 1860-1910, p. 147 (illus.)
拍品專文
Felice Beato made a series of photographs in 1860 when he accompanied the Anglo-French forces who stormed the Taku forts on 21st August.