The first entrenchment (at Taku): 12 August 1860

One of a collection of 7 mounted original watercolors of Chinese soldiers in battle or of soldier types, all signed or initialed by Wirgman. Soldier next to dead horse lighting gun/canon while other soldiers fire rifles in background. One of a collection of 7 mounted original watercolors of Chinese soldiers in battle or of soldier types, all signed or initialed by Wirgman. Soldier next to dead horse lighting gun/canon while other soldiers fire rifles in background. Reproduced in The Cosmopolitan, Vol. XVII (October 1894), page 654. Wirgman covered the Second Opium War for the Illustrated London News.