Paintings

Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Borget, Auguste

Title:

Hong Kong Bay

Date:

27 August 1838

Medium:

pencil on paper

Size:

39.8 x 61 cm

Description:

Hong Kong Bay. Inscribed and dated 'Hong-Kong Bay / 27 aout 1838', lower right). 

 

Stamped ‘ATELIER / AUGUSTE BORGET’ and numbered ‘E10’ on the reverse.
 

This view was drawn, in pencil on paper, near present day Lai Chi Kok and is one of a series of sketches made by Borget while visiting Kowloon on 27 August 1838. A charming study of a fisherman's dwelling with overhanging tree. The view is looking south and in the distance across the sea Green Island and the western extremity of Hong Kong Island can be seen.

 

One of the earliest sketches of Hong Kong.

 

 

Provenance

Christies 2020

The property of a private individual

Artist studio stamp (Lugt 5717), and by descent to the present owner.

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Item Code:

P6947

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