Photographs
North and East Corner of the Wall of Pekin
Photograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Felice A. Beato (British, 1832–1909)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1860
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 25 × 58.4 cm; Mount: 36.8 × 41.8 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Felice A. Beato
- Place of origin
- China
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Founder's Endowment, 2024
About this object
Beato was invited in February 1860 to travel to China to accompany British troops and photograph the concluding events of the Second Opium War. The works in this album are the earliest images that document the progress of a military campaign through a sequence of dated and related photographs. Part of that story, for Beato, were the corpses of the Chinese soldiers who had been killed by European troops. The album also contains the first photographs of Beijing.
Materials and technique
Albumen print
