ID: 700009137 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009137	Record Type: Movable Work

Second Opium War (albumen prints; Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Pho...; October 1860; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2007.26.209)

Note: Photographs taken in or after 1860, when Felice Beato left the partnership of Robertson & Beato went from India to photograph the Anglo-French military expedition to China in the Second Opium War.

Titles:

Second Opium War (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: group

Work Types:

albumen prints [300127121] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: October 1860

Creator Display:

Felice Beato (British, born Italy, 1832 - 1909) (British Photographer) [preferred,JPGM]

Beato, Felice (British photographer, ca. 1830-after 1904, of Italian origin) [500002985]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2007.26.209

Credit Line: Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography

Other: Creation: Beijing [7001758] Beijing Shi (municipality), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Albumen silver prints

	albumen process [300133274]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: various dimensions

Cultures:

British (preferred)

General Subject:

history and legend (preferred)

architecture

Inscriptions: (Recto, mount) inscribed in pencil, at bottom center edge: "-- Entrance to the Winter Palace, Peki, October, [sic] 1860 --" (Verso, mount) inscribed in pencil, at upper left corner: "21"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Second Opium War	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)