Beato, Felice

3 albumen prints, joined to form a panorama (229 x 860mm.), the centre panel mounted on thick paper and with a contemporary caption in ink on the mount, two adhesive marks in central panel

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AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE PANORAMA, overall with good uniform tones and contrast. Talien (Dalien) Whan Bay is on the southeast side of the Liaodong Peninsula in northeast China, and was the rendezvous point for the British fleet for the 1860 assault on China during the Second Opium War. "This panorama shows the camp of the First Division to the east of Victoria Bay along the southeast shoreline of Dalian Bay ... Originally Beato had made a five part panorama, but a crack running through the first and second plates reduced it to a three-part panorama, and finally to a two-part panorama." (Harris, D. Of Battle and Beauty, Santa Barbara Museum, 1999, p.136 note to catalogue no. 5, illustrating a 2-part example)