Exterior of Marine Redout. The first Fort captured on the 10 June

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Exterior of Marine Redout. The first Fort captured on the 10 June

Creator

Felice Beato

Photographer · 1832–1909

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Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma. Beato's photographic career was

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Date
1871
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
English
Department
Photographs
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Looking across a tidal mudflat at a stone fort on a hill surrounded by trees. A path runs along the right. In the foreground is a large woven basket filled with dirt, possibly part of an embankment.

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