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Panorama - Odin Bay (2007.26.198.4)

Date

negative June 21–July 21, 1860; print 1862

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

British

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Beato was able to record the French and British forces regrouping on their way up the coast from Hong Kong to Peking (present-day Beijing). The widespread encampment of the troops nearly fills the four-part panorama and seems to threaten the small local village on the far right.

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