Maps
Artist / Author / Cartographer:
Friedrich Schiff
Title:
A Map of Hong Kong
Date:
c1938
Medium:
lithograph, printed in colour
Size:
42 x 51 cms
Description:
A Map of Hong Kong by Schiff
Map of New Territories On the reverse side
Issued by The Hong Kong Travel Association, to whom all rights of this publication are reserved
Printed by the Tungar Press Co. Ltd., H.K.
This whimsical and decorative map was created by Friedrich Schiff, a popular Austrian artist and cartoonist who was working in Hong Kong and Shanghai in the 1930s. It was published in c1938 as "A Sporting Paradise" Map of the Colony of Hong Kong.
Framed
Rare
References
Wattis Fine Art, Hong Kong, The Pearl of the Orient 1843-1938, November, 2005.
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Item Code:
MA7973
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