Inscription
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
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.
- The Second Opium War
- 1860
- Top of the Wall From Anting Gate, Pekin, Taken Possession by English and French Troops, October 1860
- 1860
- View of the Summer Palace Yuen Min Yuen, Pekin, Showing the Pagoda Before the Burning, October 1860
- 1860
