# Angle of Taku Fort at which the French entered

- By: Felice A. Beato (British, 1832–1909)
- Date: 1860
- Medium: albumen print from collodion negative
- Classification: Photograph
- Dimensions: Image: 23.1 x 29.1 cm (9 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Paper: 23.1 x 29.1 cm (9 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit line: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.34)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2022.34/2022.34_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Beato’s photographs of the Second Opium War are believed to be the first that captured a military campaign in progress. Within that project, an extended sequence of photographs of the Taku Forts—to which this image belongs—exemplify the idea of creating a narrative recreation of the battle, a process that would later be followed by American photographers documenting the Civil War.