“Interior of South Taku Fort and showing the place of Landing / 25th June 1859,” shown at right, typifies the largely deserted panoramas. These landscape views were sent back to England by British officers. While lengthy exposure times accounted, in part, for the lack of people in the photographs, many encampments had been abandoned by the time British troops arrived. Devoid of soldiers and civilians, the eerily deserted landscapes give a skewed impression of the war.
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by Felice Beato.
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“Interior of South Taku Fort and showing the place of Landing / 25th June 1859”
Photograph by Felice Beato, August 22 or later, 1860. From the volume Second Opium War
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“Interior of South Taku Fort and showing the place of Landing / 25th June 1859”
Photograph by Felice Beato, August 22 or later, 1860. From the volume Second Opium War
US National Gallery of Art
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