Angle of Taku Fort at which the French entered
Medium
albumen print from collodion negative
Dimensions
image: 23.1 × 29.1 cm · paper: 23.1 × 29.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
Accession Number
2022.34
Tags
male
About this artwork
Beato’s photographs of the Second Opium War are believed to be the first that captured a military campaign in progress. Within that project, an extended sequence of photographs of the Taku Forts—to which this image belongs—exemplify the idea of creating a narrative recreation of the battle, a process that would later be followed by American photographers documenting the Civil War.