Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

10 c FELICE BEATO (1832-1909) A series of three photographs taken inside Taku Fort, Peking (Beijing) after its capture by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War. Salted paper prints, the images measuring approximately 9 1 / 2 x11 1 / 2 inches (24.1x29.2 cm.), the mounts 13 1 / 2 x15 1 / 2 inches (34.3x39.4 cm.), each with a caption and the date, in ink, on mount recto. 1860 [6,000/9,000] North Fort of the Peiko, Interior of Angle, immediately after its capture, 21 1860, Effect of Armstrong Guns at 600 yards * Angle of North Fort - Peiko, where the French entered, August 21, 1860 * North Fort of the Peiko, Interior where the English entered, August 21, 1860.