Tangkoo Fort After Its Capture, Showing the French and English Entrance, August 10, 1860
1860
Artist, British, born Venice, 1832 - 1909
Felice Beato
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
albumen print
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Credit Line
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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