The Chinese expedition, 1859-1860 / by Major W.G.R. Masters, Royal Marine Light Infantry ; a series of eight views ...
Published / Created:
London : Published July 18, 1861, by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen, Gate Street, Lincoln's-Inn Fields, [1861]
Physical Description:
[1] leaf, 8 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 58 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3429309
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC Folio B 2024 3: Plates are not hand-colored. Unbound. In publisher's original printed wrappers, rebacked.
Contents:
Contents (from title page): 1. Bombardment of the forts at the entrance of the Peiho River, 25th June 1859 ... -- 2. Landing to attack the Peiho forts ... -- 3. View from the centre bastion, south forts, 1860 ... -- 4. At the stakes, mouth of the Peiho River, 1860 -- 5. View of the south forts ... -- 6. Fort taken by assault, 21st August ... -- 7. The forts at the mouth of the Peiho River ... -- 8. Fort taken by assault by the allied forces, 21st August.
Subject Terms:
Taku Forts (China) | China -- History -- Foreign intervention, 1857–1861 -- Pictorial works. | China -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs.
Contributors:
Dutton, Thomas Goldsworth, active 1855, lithographer. | Walker, Edmund, 1813 or 1814–1882, lithographer. | Day & Son, publisher.