Photos of 19th-century Beijing to be auctioned in London (2)

Highlights of the collection include a six-plate panorama of Beijing during the Qing Dynasty.

Richard Fattorini, Manuscript and Photo Expert, Sotheby's, said, "It takes a great deal of skill to take panaroma photograph, and this time it takes six individual photographs to make one panaroma..1.7 meters long...so it is a very very important photograph."

The collection includes pictures of the imperial Summer Palace which was flattened during the invasion by Anglo-French forces.

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