Tangkoo Fort After Its Capture, Showing the French and English Entrance, August 10, 1860

1860

Felice Beato

Artist, British, born Venice, 1832 - 1909

Felice Beato

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Michael and Jane Wilson

  • Dimensions

    image: 23 × 57.4 cm (9 1/16 × 22 5/8 in.)
    mount: 24.8 × 31.2 cm (9 3/4 × 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.137.1.4

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 05 May 2000, lot 302, as The Second Opium War China, 1860); Michael and Jane Wilson, Wilson Centre for Photography, London, acquired 2000; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso of mount, by unknown hand, along top in black ink on paper label: Tangkoo Fort. after its Capture. showing the French and English entrance. / Aug-10th-1860. ; upper left in graphite: 2(1'-10"; bottom right in graphite: 00:6693

Wikidata ID

Q64147548

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