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| 1. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Sir James Hope Grant Albumen print 17 x 13.10 cm National Galleries of Scotland Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland (Accession no. PGP 19.1), Purchased 1938 |
| 2. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Taku Fort, China Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 2785, Accession No. NAM. 1962-08-16-13 |
| 3. |  | Felice Beato 1860 View of the entrance the English used into the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, 21st August 1860 Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037621) |
| 4. |  | Felice Beato 1860 The North Taku Fort, China Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 2789, Accession No. NAM. 1962-08-16-8 |
| 5. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Interior of Taku Fort, China Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 2944, Accession No. NAM. 1962-08-16 |
| 6. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037624) |
| 7. |  | Felice Beato 1861 (published) Interior of the North Fort, Takoo, at the angle where the British Forces entered Lithograph Google Books Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Characters, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin, (London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861) From a Photograph by Signor Beato Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 85 Cornhill, London, 1861 Lithograph by Day & Son. |
| 8. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Interior view of the North Fort of Taku on the Peiho River, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, following its capture by the English and French armies on August 21st 1860. The battlements and cannons are surrounded by Chinese corpses. Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037622) |
| 9. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 21 August Interior of the North Taku Fort, immediately after its capture Albumen print British Library |
| 10. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 21 August (event) 1864 (published) Signor Beato at the Taku forts in China during the Second Opium War Book page Google Books D.F. Rennie, The British Arms in North China and Japan: Peking 1860; Kagoshima 1862, (London: John Murray, 1864) p.112. Writing on the attack on the Taku Forts in China - 21st August 1860 I walked round the ramparts on the west side. They were thickly strewed with dead in the north-west angle thirteen were lying in one group round a gun. Signor Beato was here in great excitement, characterising the group as "beautiful," and begging that it might not be interfered with until perpetuated by his photographic apparatus, which was done a few minutes afterwards. Not far from this group, a tall and very dignified-looking man of between fifty and sixty, stated to be the general who had conducted the defence, was lying dead, his lower jaw shattered by a rifle bullet. |
| 11. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 25 June View of the interior of the South Fort of Taku, near Tientsin (Tianjin), China, showing Chinese troops accommodation and encampment, 25th June 1860 Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037649) |
| 12. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 1 August Pehtang Fort Albumen silver print 9 x 11 11/16" (22.9 x 29.7 cm) MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and the Estate of Vera Louise Fraser, 1272.1974 |
| 13. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 1 August Interior of Pehtang Fort showing Probyn's Horses Albumen silver prints 9 7/16 x 23 1/4" (24 x 59.2 cm) MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and the Estate of Vera Louise Fraser, 1275.1974 |
| 14. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 1 August Interior of the Pehtang Fort Showing the Magazine and Wooden Gun, August 1, 1860 Albumen print 15 3/16 x 17 11/16 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 2007.26.198.9 |
| 15. |  | Felice Beato 1860, 1 August Interior of Pehtang Fort, Showing the Magazine and Wooden Gun, August 1, 1860 Albumen print 9 3/8 x 11 5/8 ins J. Paul Getty Museum 84.XM.473.32 |
| 16. |  | Felice Beato 1860, August Head Quarter Staff, Pehtang Fort [China] Albumen print 10 x 11 25/32 J. Paul Getty Museum © J.P. Getty Trust (84.XM.473.27) |
| 17. |  | Felice Beato 1861 (published) An-Ting Gate of Pekin occupied by the Allied Forces Lithograph Google Books Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Characters, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin, (London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861) From a Photograph by Signor Beato Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 85 Cornhill, London, 1861 Lithograph by Day & Son. |
| 18. |  | Felice Beato 1860 View along the top of the wall from Anting Gate, Beijing, China, after its capture by the English and French armies on 21st October 1860. Albumen print Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0037627) |
| 19. |  | Felice Beato 1861 (published) Grand Entrance of the Winter Palace, Pekin Lithograph Google Books Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Characters, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin, (London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861) From a Photograph by Signor Beato Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 85 Cornhill, London, 1861 Lithograph by Day & Son. |
| 20. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Summer Palace, Peking Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 16651, Accession No. NAM. 1967-09-83-65 |
| 21. |  | Felice Beato 1867 1162, Pavilion of the Summer Palace, Pekin. From a photograph by Beato Book illustration, woodcut Google Books James Furgusson A History of Architecture in all Countries, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, in three volumes (London: John Murray, 1867), Vol.II, Part III, p.754. |
| 22. |  | Felice Beato 1860, October View of the Imperial Summer Palace Yuen Ming Yuen after the Burning, Taken from the Lake, Peking Albumen silver prints 9 3/8 x 18 1/2" (23.9 x 47.2 cm) MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Gift of Jon Hendricks, 49.1986 |
| 23. |  | Felice Beato 1860 Prince Gong Qinwang of China Albumen print National Army Museum Negative No. 37907, Accession No. NAM. 1967-09-83-7 |
| 24. |  | Felice Beato 1861 (published) Prince Kung Book illustration Google Books Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Characters, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin, (London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1861), frontispiece The taking of a portrait of Prince Kung by Signor Beato is given on. p.377-378. The imperial edict confirming all that Prince Kung had signed was duly received, and large proclamations on the 6th [November 1860] were posted up all over the city, making the terms of peace patent to all the Celestials. This last performance of the great act was considered so important that the army interpreters were deputed to accompany the mandarins commissioned for the purpose of having the same placarded in all conspicuous parts of the great city; and parcels of proclamations were made up ready for posting at important places on the downward march. Much cordiality now existed between Lord Elgin and Prince Kung, and visits were frequently exchanged. The Prince threw off the nervous restraint and show of bad humour that marked his first interview. He sat with pleasure for his photograph before the camera of Signor Beato, and we are thus enabled to give a view of his far from comely visage to our readers. He is said to bear a strong resemblance to the Emperor; and, indeed, a carefully executed portrait of his Celestial Majesty, which was secured by an officer from the Summer Palace, called so forcibly to our mind the physiognomy of the Prince that we declared it could be no other, until, from the Chinese inscription on the top, it was deciphered to represent the Emperor. |
| 25. |  | Felice Beato 1875 (published) Beato photographs the signing ceremony between Prince Kung and the Allied forces in the "Hall of Ceremonies" Book page Google Books Henry Knollys, Incidents in the China War of 1860 compiled from the Private Journals of General Sir Hope Grant, (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1875), p.209-210. |
| 26. |  | John Thomson 1868 (ca) Hong Kong facing the harbour Glass plate Wellcome Collection Wellcome Library, London (V0036698) The street is known as the Praya or Des Voeux Road. The buildings are the office of Jardine Matheson and Co while the one next door is the office of Dent and Co., their chief rival in the opium trade. |
| 27. |  | John Thomson 1869 Hongkong facing the Harbour Albumen print 17.5 x 24 cm Source requested |
| 28. |  | William Saunders 1865-1875 [Opium smoking, Shanghai] Albumen print 19.5 x 14.5 cm Dennis George Crow Courtesy of Dennis George Crow (www.dennisgeorgecrow.com) A rarely seen studio study of a man smoking opium and a man smoking a tabaco pipe.This photograph was printed with rounded corners. The dark boarder is part of the matt and not the photograph. |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist n.d. Chinese Opium smokers Carte de visite Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold (48 / 162) Two men are seated, two recline, having removed their shoes. There is calligraphic writing on the wall behind, that might indicate whether this is in China or the US. There's a caption in florid period pen on verso. |
| 30. |  | John Thomson 1876 Opium smoking Book illustration Google Books J. Thomson The Land and People of China. A Short Account of the Geography, History, Religion, Social Life, Arts, Industries, and Government of China and its People (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1876) |
| 31. |  | Felice Beato 1861 Fane's Horse, China [Regimental groups, Tientsin, 1861] Albumen print 19.8 x 25.7 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Photography 19th-21st Century (1 June 2011) Lot: 4017 From the Bassenge Auction Catalogue: Mounted to card, annotated with sitters' names and Tientsin 1861 in ink below the image on the mount. In 1860 Walter Fane raised the irregular cavalry force of Fane's Horse to fight in China during the Second Opium War 1856 - 1860. Fane's Horse fought in the engagements of Sinho, Chinkiawbaw, Pulli-chi-on as well as in the sacking of Peking under Fane's cousin Field Marshal Sir John Michel. For these services Michel was nominated as a companion of the Order of the Bath. The regiment was later re-named the 19th (King George's Own) Lancers in the Indian Army. Felice Beato, a Venetian by birth, initially worked as a photographer in England. Around 1854 he began working with his brother-in-law James Robertson, based in Constantinople. Felice Beato took a group photo of Fane's Horse circa 1860 in China, the basis of the attribution of this print. Additional images from a series of portraits of Regimental groups taken in Tientsin in 1861 are known. Information on these and the justifications for the Felice Beato attribution are requested. [September 2011] |
| 32. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861 31st Regt 1861 [Regimental groups, Tientsin, 1861] Albumen print Private collection of John Cloake Warning The attribution to Felice Beato is uncertain and we would like to hear of any evidence as to whom took the photographs of the Regimental groups at Tientsin in 1861. These images were taken after the fighting and it is known that other amateur photographers were at Tientsin at this time and Beato was in England for part of 1861. This photograph was one of a number sold by Pump Park to the present collector. The source is thought to be from "An album compiled by C.H. Cox of the 60th Rifles, comprising approximately 10 pencil or watercolours sketches and approximately 24 photographs, original red cloth, lettered on the upper cover, rebacked, contents working loose, oblong folio, 1854-1861" (Bonhams Sale 18060 - India and Beyond, Knightsbridge, 13 April 2010) |
| 33. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861 60th Rifles 1861 [Regimental groups, Tientsin, 1861] Albumen print Private collection of John Cloake Warning The attribution to Felice Beato is uncertain and we would like to hear of any evidence as to whom took the photographs of the Regimental groups at Tientsin in 1861. These images were taken after the fighting and it is known that other amateur photographers were at Tientsin at this time and Beato was in England for part of 1861. This photograph was one of a number sold by Pump Park to the present collector. The source is thought to be from "An album compiled by C.H. Cox of the 60th Rifles, comprising approximately 10 pencil or watercolours sketches and approximately 24 photographs, original red cloth, lettered on the upper cover, rebacked, contents working loose, oblong folio, 1854-1861" (Bonhams Sale 18060 - India and Beyond, Knightsbridge, 13 April 2010) |
| 34. |  | Unidentified photographer 1861 67th Regt 1861 [Regimental groups, Tientsin, 1861] Albumen print Private collection of John Cloake Warning The attribution to Felice Beato is uncertain and we would like to hear of any evidence as to whom took the photographs of the Regimental groups at Tientsin in 1861. These images were taken after the fighting and it is known that other amateur photographers were at Tientsin at this time and Beato was in England for part of 1861. This photograph was one of a number sold by Pump Park to the present collector. The source is thought to be from "An album compiled by C.H. Cox of the 60th Rifles, comprising approximately 10 pencil or watercolours sketches and approximately 24 photographs, original red cloth, lettered on the upper cover, rebacked, contents working loose, oblong folio, 1854-1861" (Bonhams Sale 18060 - India and Beyond, Knightsbridge, 13 April 2010) |