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Artillery belonging to the Ningpo Contingent (Circa 1870)
Henry Cammidge
Albumen Print
10.25" x 8"
Circa 1870
C2864
Cammidge was based in Shanghai in the 1860's and early 1870's. He photographed Charles Gordon's Ever Glorious Army during the period after the suppression of the Taiping Rebellion. This image is of the Anglo-Chinese artillery contingent at Ningbo.
Ref: Terry Bennett - History of Photography in China, Western Photographers 1861-1879, pp123-132. Page 130 has a shot of the same group of men taken from a different angle.
